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0 Comments | Insight on the News, August 27, 2001

Conservative Cartoonists Draw Praise for Creativity

Stephen Goode's article about conservative cartoonists ["Right to Laugh," Aug. 13] was great. I am amazed that more attention isn't given to these wonderful artists and pundits. Their work is part genius, part art and all politics. My personal favorite is Rick Kollinger of The Star-Democrat (in Easton, Md.).

Insight should consider putting together a collection of its favorite conservative cartoons from the previous year. It would be a great way to remember historic events from the last year.

E. Dee Merriken
Easton, Md.

Thanks for the great article on editorial cartoonist Dick Wright [Picture Profile, Aug. 13]. We sure miss him at the the Providence (R.I.) Journal, which has taken a decidedly leftward tilt since the death of owner Michael Metcalf some years ago.

Now the Journal has some local yokel doing inky scratches that ,are impossible to decipher at times. In addition, they are bereft of wit -- an essential in political cartoons and something that Wright has in abundance. I wish him well.

Ginny Yanyar
via the Internet

Free Speech: Exclusive Realm of Government and Business?

Sheila R. Cherry's article about why free speech still isn't free [The Last Word, Aug. 13] was very good and very accurate. Unfortunately, the U.S. government's actions against ranchers out West is being overlooked because people think "it won't affect us."

If they can get the ranchers, then they can get suburbia. I wish more people would wake up and see where their freedoms are being lost.

I hope others will find out about Sheila and people like her so that they can see that not all journalists cheat. People need to understand who is talking to them through the old-fashioned media outlets.

Jeff Gura
via the Internet

Sheila R. Cherry raises some good points in her article about "free" speech. Since corporations are not citizens, it is surprising that they have more rights than citizens do.

This goes double for the typical white-male high-tech worker who has a couple of postgraduate degrees and gets laid off. Many of them are stuck in homeless shelters or working as sales clerks, night watchmen or even burger-flippers.

Where is the media on this? It's been going on for 20 years. Many of us "missed" the 1990s and stayed in poverty while "everybody else" was "getting rich." You can't invest in the stock market when you make $7,000 a year.

Tom Nadeau
Author
Seven Lean Years: America's
New High-Tech Underclass
via the Internet

Neglect by Owners Leaves Canines in the Doghouse

Howard Price's article ["Dog Gone," July 30] misses a major cause of dog attacks on people -- the lack of control of these dogs by their owners.

One would think that people could see the similarity between dogs attacking people and young people who get into trouble because they are not adequately supervised by their parents.

You see one of two things near parks -- owners with their dogs on a leash going for a walk or dogs running loose with no owner in sight. Therein lies the problem.

H.K. Miller
Weed, Calif.

Reader Says Insight Articles Bring Balance to the News

Thank you for Insight's continued excellent work. It's great to have sources of intelligent, unbiased news not in the hip pocket of the loony left!

Ken Hodges
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