Letters

This Month's Letters

The Beginnings of the Fascist Revolution (12/8)
Sophistry Par Excellence (12/14)

September-November 2024 Letters

Socialism: Good or Bad? (9/06)
John Gabriel's Myopia (9/10)
Blame the Post-Modernists (9/18)
Politics As Usual Or Not (9/19)
Rise of the Right Wing (10/23)
The New American Revolution - Armegeddon or Bust (10/25)
Editorial Chokehold (10/25)
American Masochism (11/7)
Let the Madness Begin (11/8)
Toxic Wokeness (11/13)
Earwig-Go (11/14)
Congratulations to Republicans (11/17)
Bring on the Clowns!

May-August 2024

Lies are Death (8/03)
Pessimism or Optimism? (8/07)
Being a Republican Commentator (8/12)
The Olympics (8/13)
Ducey's Legacy (8/16)
Israel's Long Term Goals (8/21)
Bad Language (8/22)
American Politics (8/31)
Ladies! The Republican Establishment Wants to Own and Control Your Ovaries (7/01)
The Monarchy at Last (7/02)
Project 2025
OOOOOPS! A Socialist Government! (7/06)
Where are we Going? (7/07)
Restoring the American Way (7/08)
The Race for the White House (7/13)
Trump and God (7/17)
The Past - A Foreign Country (7/23)
How To Be A Good Republican Pundit (6/01)
A Terrible Silence (6/02)
The Canyon Hotel (6/02)
Three Human Failings (6/05)
A Good Republican (6/05)
Loving the Limelight (6/07)
The Legacy of Gaza (6/07)
Woke Native America (6/10)
Doubts About the Politics of the Arizona Republic (6/11)
What to Love About Democracy (6/13)
They Have All Our Details But Have They Got Us? (6/21)
The Trump Phenomenon (6/27)
Project 2025 (6/30)
What Good is it I Told You So? (5/01)
A Brief Glance Into the Lives of Women in 1865 (5/3)
Something Rotten in the State of Denmark (5/04)
Republican Genius (5/08)
A Refreshingly New AZ Republic (5/12)
Time for Republicans to Find Their Spines/Balls/Ovaries (5/14)
A Long View of Events (5/24)
Phil Boas's Critical Thinking Skills (5/25)
Radix Malorum Cupiditas Est (5/29)
Golf, A Silly Game (5/29)
Change Comes Slowly in America (5/31)

January-April 2024

Who Pays What to Educate Our Kids? (1/12)
The Center Cannot Hold (1/17)
Once Upon a Time (1/24)
An Act of Barbarity (1/26)
Comfort Offered by Republicanism in Arizona (1/30)
Sleight of Hand (2/02)
Boas' Weird Thinking (2/09)
Israel's Long Term Goals (2/12)
Anti-American Indoctrination Camps (2/14)
American Aid - Worrisome Contradictions (2/20)
The Party of Fear (2/23)
What's Wrong With Our Young Men? (2/27)
The Communists Are Coming (2/29)
Defend Spermatozoa (3/01)
Am I the Only One? (3/04)
The Chest Thumping Silverback? (3/05)
Wadsackization (3/14)
To Test or Not to Test (3/14)
Unpunishable (3/15)
Democrat Anger (3/18)
The Bloodbath (3/20)
Immigration (3/22)
The End of the Republic (3/25)
Boas Blinkers (3/27)
Chad Prather is My Man (3/28)
Oppenheimer (3/30)
April Fools (4/01)
A Rose Tinted Phil Boas (4/03)
Russians Financing Truth Social (4/06)
Reds in the Bed? (4/09)
Lies are Death (4/10)
Doug Ducey Leaves His Mark (4/11)
Abortion (4/15)
Of the People, By the People (4/19)
What Israel Wants (4/23)
Education Standards (4/24)
False Analogies (4/27)
Where is the GOP? (4/30)

July-December 2023

Climate Change Duh! (7/28)
No More Right-Leaning Speakers at ASU (8/04)
The Republican Editorial Writers (8/22)
Expose Thyself to Feel What Wretches Feel (8/25)
Blake Masters is the "Man" (9/04)
A Socialist's Dastardly Plot to Destroy Republicans (9/06)
Second Language (9/08)
Being Republican (9/21)
When is Enough Enough? (10/06)
Here We go Again: Israelis V Palestinians
Phil Boas - Stoking the Partisan Divide (10/13)
We the People..... (10/19)
The Arizona Republic Meets the Cowardly Lion (10/21)
The Phil Boas Pulpit (10/12)
Pick up Your Bibles (10/27)
Long Term Israeli Goals (11/10)
Anti-science (11/18)
Boas - A Faithful Republican (12/01)
Old Newspapers (12/09)
The Deafening Silence (12/21)
Shh... Do You Want to Know a Secret? (12/25)
Christian Nationalism (12/27)

January-June 2023

Making America Great Again (1/10)
No More Woke Education (2/17)
Do Republicans Like Communism? (2/22)
Either We Defend Democracy or We Are Nothing (3/04)
Financial Baby Poos (3/14)
Kids Will Be Kids (3/22)
It's the Wrong Time and the Wrong Place but the Right Road (3/22)
David's Dong (3/22)
Emasculating the Arizona Republic (4/01)
Selective Memory (4/07)
Bald Men Arguing Over Combs (4/08)
Time For a Change (4/09)
Israeli-Palestinian Peace (4/11) (New York Times)
Welcome to Fascism American Style (4/15)
If at First You Don't Succeed (5/20)
Turn Out the Lights (5/16)
Republicanism for Sale (5/24)
And So the Circus Goes On (5/28)

April-December 2022

We Know What's Best for You! (4/02)
Bottom of the Pile (4/06)
29,681 Dead (4/10)
Lies are Death (4/12)
Suddenly Silent (4/18)
Thinking is Dangerous (4/19)
Putin's Bad Gamble (4/24)
Fascism in Arizona (5/12)
American Horror Show (5/26)
Truth? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Truth (6/09)
The New Barbarism (6/25)
Isn't It Amazing? (7/05)
Is There a God? (7/17)
May God be With You (8/14)
"Left" vs "Right" (12/24)

January-March 2022

Republicans are to Blame for COVID Deaths (1/02)
Putting the Record Straight (1/03)
Feeding Friends Frenzy (1/03)
Poor Jonah Goldberg! (1/06)
Education in Decline (1/07)
Call it What it is - Fascism (1/07)
Pass the Voting Law (1/08)
State of the Republic (1/09)
For Shame (1/11)
Listen to the Ice Cream Man (1/11)
It's Already Too Late (1/12)
His Royal Lowness (Published 1/13)
It's Not a Popularity Contest (1/15)
Mutations Happen (1/16)
Jonah The Wise (1/16)
Alternate Reality (1/17)
The Rally in Florence (1/18)
Ducey, the Mass Murderer (1/19)
He Has To Go! (1/22)
No More Middle Ground (1/24)
Always Look on the Bright Side (1/24)
Clutching at Pearls (1/26)
What Da Ya Do? (1/26)
The New Evil (1/28)
The Bishop Retiring (1/30)
Righting the Ship (1/30)
Whither Ukraine (2/03)
Moral Compass (2/06)
Defending Ukraine (2/07)
Words Matter (2/09)
Good Ole Trump! (2/10)
Blackmail (2/15)
Listen Up! (2/16)
I Have Seen the Enemy and it is "We" (2/17)
We Need Educated Teachers to Have Educated Students (2/19)
Goldberg Gets it Wrong. Again. (2/20)
Heart of Darkness (2/20)
Tyrants - At Home and Abroad (2/22)
Gabriel at it Again (2/27)
What Might Have Been (3/03)
It's Called Freedom (3/04)
All in All it's Just Another Hole in the Wall (3/11)
It Isn't Biden's Fault (3/12)
Have Patience (3/18)
A Different Class of President (3/31)

November-December 2021

We're Like the Titanic (11/01)
Re-evaluating "Woke" Culture (11/03)
What America Needs - And Doesn't (11/06)
Rational Thinking (11/07)
Not the American Way (11/08)
More Jonah Goldberg (11/10)
We Are at War (11/10)
Rich Lowry Knows (11/11)
Threatening to Kill (11/13)
Being Confused (11/14)
The Biden Wind (11/15)
Rittenhouse (11/16)
Writing for Fun (11/17)
Oh, Jonah Goldberg! (11/21)
The American Family (11/22)
Thoughtful Perspectives (11/23)
Global Warming(11/24)
Black Friday 100% Off Everything Sale (11/26)
Two for the Price of One (11/27)
Both Barrels (11/28)
A Quick Review, A Sad Reminder (11/29)
To the Victors.... (12/02)
How Heartless (12/03)
Rob Robb and the Art of Casuistry (12/05)
Republicanism - the Parth of Death (12/09)
Being a Conservative Pundit (12/09)
Political Guidance (12/11)
Freedom! (12/11)
Lowry - Laugh or Cry? (12/12)
We'er (Almost) Number One! (12/15)
Racism is All Around Us (12/16)
COVID is Killing Democracy (12/18)
Another Year Gone (Published 12/18)
The Coup Must be Punished (12/19)
Fair and Equitable Elections (12/20)
Not Funny (12/21)
Nature's Way (12/21)
Poor Jonah Goldberg (12/22)
Positive Pandemic (12/22)
Supporting Dr. Fauci (12/24)
Leading from Behind (12/26)
Understanding Wealth (12/27)
Ducey's Failure to Lead (12/28)
Losing the Republic (12/29)
Trump is a Dinosaur (12/30)

September-October 2021

Beware of the Socialists! (9/02)
Good Old Fascists (9/03)
On Juristocracy (9/04)
We Don't Need No Education (9/05)
Jon Gabriel Should Mind His Own Business (9/07)
Do Americans Understand History? (9/09)
A Hasty Retreat (9/10)
Did the Terrorists Win? (9/11)
A Quiet Sunday with Lowry (9/12)
Comrade Ducey to Decide the Curriculum (9/13)
Thank General Milley (9/15)
Let Them Die (9/16)
Don't Defund the FBI (9/18)
Arizona Has Changed, but the Republic Has Not (9/19)
Better Angels (9/24)
Our Present Tragic Situation (9/26)
Who Wants to Teach? (9/27)
H 2 Oh No! (9/28)
We Need Some Laws... (9/28)
If You Don't Have Anything to Say... (9/30)
Stop Carping! (10/02)
Original Sin (Published 10/06)
The Elephant Vs the Dodo (10/07)
The American Way (10/08)
China's No Threat (10/10)
Ducey the Socialist (10/10)
Rich Lowry Redux (10/11)
What's In a Label? (10/14)
The Dying Fraud Horse (10/17)
Capitalism and the Future (10/18)
And the Band Plays On (10/19)
January 6th (10/21)
Not Understanding (10/21)
What Can You Do? (10/23)
Double Dose of Pundritry (Published 10/25)
Antisemitism (10/27)
Ethnic Cleansing American Style - (10/29)
Really Scary Stuff! (10/31)

July-August 2021

There's No Racism....Where? (7/04)
What You Can Do About Global Warming (7/04)
Native American Ethnic Cleansing Day (7/04)
Leadership is Hard (7/06)
Which History is "Correct"? (7/08)
It's a Wry Heat (Published 7/08)
Teaching Hyprocrisy (7/11)
Will the Center Hold? (7/14)
Panic in the Streets (7/16)
Republican Fascism (7/17)
Weekly Roundup (7/18)
Blue Tinted Spectacles (7/19)
Teaching How Society Collapsed (7/20)
Stop Laughing at Republicans (7/22)
Republicans Bad! (7/23)
Trump Still Bad! (7/26)
Don't Want to Know (7/28)
Stupid Humans (7/31)
One Man's Vision of America (7/31)
Please Wear a Mask - For Me! (8/01)
America is and has Always Been Anti-Woman! (8/02)
A Constitutional Right to Abortion (8/04)
Republican Olympics (8/04)
Gotcha! (8/05)
Good News or Not? (8/06)
The Blind Leading the Blind (8/07)
Writing About Trump (8/08)
Do You Do it on Purpose? (8/10)
Your Contribution to Global Warming (8/10)
Randy Andy Caught in the Act (8/11)
The Culture of Male Violence (8/12)
Mask Wars (8/12)
Don't Say Mac..... (8/13)
Be a Republican (8/13)
Afghanistan (8/14)
The Constitution (8/15)
Get Vaccinated (8/16)
Joe Arpaio's Bologna(8/16)
Whimsy (8/17)
Opening the Floodgates of Hell (8/18)
Just Another Gotcha (8/19)
Afghanistan Was Not Biden't Fault (8/20)
Ducey's Genocide Education (8/21)
Drawing the Threads Together (8/22)
Give Us Your Best, Your Brightest... (8/24)
Blame Game (8/24)
Success as a Pundit (8/25)
Whitewalker Republicans on the March (8/26)
Keeping America Great (8/27)
Another Goldberg Masterclass (8/29)
Afghanistan is Trump's Fault (8/30)
More Lowry Malarkey (8/31)

May-June 2021

Words Matter (5/02)
What Do Republicans Stand For? (5/06)
We Need Truth (5/08)
How To Be a Republic Editorial Writer (5/09)
Why Do I Watch Fox News? (5/10)
Israel's Folly (5/10)
Stupid Is as Stupid Does (5/12)
Capitalism vs State Control (5/12)
Vitriol Much? (5/13)
Save The Paper (5/14)
Another from Jon Gabriel (5/15)
Another from Jon Lowry (5/16)
Not Looking the Other Way (5/18)
Welcome to the New America (5/18)
Killing of Innocent Civilians Has No Place on Any Politcal Agenda (Published 5/18)
Who Wants to be a Teacher? (5/23)
The Cult of Trump (5/25)
Well Informed and Not a Bit Scared (5/28)
The Fight For Democracy (5/29)
Explaining the Cult of Trump (5/29)
Republicans Have Their Heads.... in the Sand(6/02)
Republican Hypocrisy (6/15)
The Governor's Insanity (6/16)
Let's Celebrate (6/17)
Dear Gun Owner (6/17)
Drive to Stay Alive (6/18)
What Bishops Need to Do (6/19)
Hand Me the Fentanyl (6/20)
Racism is Evil (6/21)
The Heart of the Matter (6/23)
Goldberg and Partisanship (6/24)
About Native Americans (6/25)
Cherry Picking Facts (6/27) (Published 6/29)
Arizona's Addams Family (6/29)
Economic Theories (6/30)

March-April 2021

January-February 2021

The Evil of Trump (1/01)
Coup Leader (1/04)
Graphs in the AZ Republic (1/05)
Fox Gave Us the Mob (1/07)
Fascism (1/09)
Jon Gabriel (1/11)
If Only.... (1/13)
Whose Free Speech? (1/15)
Evil in Support of Tyranny (1/18)
The Long Term (1/21)
Right to Decide (1/23)
The Removal of Churchill's Bust from the Oval Office (1/23)
Home Grown Wankers (1/25)
A Nation of Laws (1/26)
Climate Change (1/29)
We Must Act Now (2/01)
American Values (2/03)
We Need Nationalized Healthcare (2/08)
Where Are the Anti-Socialists? (2/08)
Censorship? (2/10)
What a Relief! (2/11)
An Award for Governor Ducey? (2/13)
What is it About America? (2/13)
Impeachment Sham (2/14)
Texas Ain't Dumb (2/18)
What's Ducey Planning? (2/21)
Boy, Are We Dumb (2/22)
Arizona's Water (2/24)
Moral Bankruptcy (2/25)

November-December 2020

September-October 2020

Flu Shots (9/01)
Get to Work! (9/02)
AZR's Coverage of Global Warming (9/18)
Jon Gabriel and Israel (9/19)
Vote and Move On (10/01)
The Show Goes On (10/06)
White Flight (10/11)
A Merry Time (10/26)
Enshrined in History (10/27)

July-August 2020

Robb's Isolationism (7/03)
The Greatest Threat (7/07)
Just In Case Things Turn Bad (7/07)
Election Guide (7/13)
Shame On You (7/14)
Getting What You Deserve (7/18)
Remembering John Lewis (7/19)
The History of Protest (7/24)
Rules for Opinion Writers (7/28)
It's Snowing! (7/28)
This Was Avoidable (7/30)
Can Trump Speak? (8/03)
Teaching History (8/06)
Playing Ping Pong (8/09)
The Beginning of the End of the American Empire (8/11)
Defending the Republic (8/12)
Climate Study (8/12)
True Colors (8/16)
The Rule of the Gangster (8/16)
Do You Laugh or Cry? (8/18)
A Plague on Both Your Houses (8/19)
Death Penalty Goodie Goodie! (8/21)
Pious Resolutions (8/23)
Looney Tunes (8/24)
The Post Office (8/25)
End of American Exceptionalism (8/26)
The Fear Button (8/27)
Inter-Galactic News Bulletin (8/28)
Moving Toward the Catastrophe (8/28)
Environmental Issues (8/29)
Having a Royal Family (8/30)
Deaths (8/30)
How to Murder Democracy (8/31)

May-June 2020

English 101 Syllabus for Trump Supporters (5/01)
Buck Sexton (6/02)
We Are a Democracy (6/11)
The President's Imcompetence (6/17)
How Many Died? (6/18)
Not a One-Off Event (6/22)
Why the Sense of Shock? (6/23)
The Conservative Mindset (6/25)
Unfairness (6/27)
Let's Make Arizona Great! (6/29)

April 2020

On the Same Planet? (4/01)
Time to Go Bust (4/01)
Chinese Are to Blame (4/02)
Trump Haters (4/04)
Lambs to the Slaughter (4/04)
Focusing on Positive News (4/04)
Front Page (4/07)
Irrelevent? Sclerotic? Dull? (4/07)
Beware of Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (4/08)
Going to War (4/09)
Terrible Sadness (4/10)
Whose Fault is it Anyway? (4/12)
Stupidity (4/13)
The War on the Coronavirus (4/13)
Andy Biggs a Good Christian (4/13)
Ducey's Plan (4/14)
Closing Down Chinese Wet Markets (4/14)
Calling the President Out for Who He Is (4/15)
Capitalism: The Answer or the Problem? (4/16)
No National Testing Policy (4/18)
The Capitalist System on its Knees (4/19)
The Real News (4/20)
A Joke Letter (4/21)
Where are the Positives from the Pandemic? (4/21)
Foxy News (4/22)
The Differences Between Stupidity and Foolishness (4/23)
A Sick President (4/24)
Supporting Their President (4/26)
What Happened to the Republican Party? (4/27)
A Lesson to be Learned (4/28)
What Does the Republican Party Represent? (4/29)
Hypocrisy (4/30)

March 2020

Our Way of Life Under Threat (3/03)
Fair and Balanced (3/05)
Pulling Out of Afganistan Again (3/07)
Let's Get it Clear About the Coronavirus (3/07)
Making the Common Man the King (3/09)
Leadership (3/20)
The Anti-Socialist Drum (3/10)
The Benefits of the Plague (3/11)
God Bless America (3/12)
The Beauty of Nature (3/14)
Awareness (3/15)
No Testing (3/20)
Foxy News (3/18)
The Opinion Pages fo the AZ Republic (3/20)
Changing Political Gears at the AZ Republic (3/22)
Trump - A Joke (3/22)
Journalistic Incest (3/23)
Make America Great Again (3/23)
War Metaphor (3/25)
Defining Madness? (3/26)
Today's Editorial (3/26)
The Language of Leaders (3/27)
Not Words, Actions (3/27)
Too Little Too Late (3/29)
Making America Great Again (3/30)
Where's the Outrage? (3/31)
The Republic Working Overtime (3/31)

February 2020

January 2020

Criticizing Ed Montini (1/02)
Who's Head's Up Whose Arse? (1/02)
Learning From Australia (1/02)
Half Full or Half Empty? (1/04)
Trump the Mafia Boss (1/07)
Doug Ducey (1/07)
Middle East (1/08)
Scoring Points (1/09)
The British Royal Family (1/10)
Tactical Battlefield Decision (1/13)
Royal Cowardice (1/15)
The McSally Silliness (1/19)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (1/20)
Corona Virus (1/20)
Chinese Agricultural Practices (1/21)
McSally Whine (1/27)
Healing The Wounds of Racism (1/29)
Loneliness (1/30)

September - December 2019

Political Labels (9/1)
What Is Evil? (9/2)
What A Tragedy! (9/3)
Overwhelmed - Professor Koppell Revisited (9/5)
Planting The Seeds (9/5)
Pulling Out of Afganistan (9/7)
Re-writing the American Dream (9/8)
Never Forget (9/12)
The Crackers are Cracking (9/12)
Wading Through Sophistry (9/12)
Who Controls the Country? (9/16)
Bin Laden's Aim (9/18)
America at War (9/19)
Climate Change Deniers (9/25)
The Turning Tide (9/30)

January - August 2019

Educational Accountability (3/1)
Arizona - A Good Feeling (5/9)
Thoughts on Memorial Day (5/27)
Mass Murder (6/23)
"Bash a Democrat Week" & The Republican Mind (6/25)
A Problem With The 2020 Election (6/27)
The End of American Democracy (6/28)
Trump & Putin (6/29)
American Independence (7/4)
Quality Education and Testing (7/5)
Rapid City Blues (8/14)
How to Fight a Narcissist (8/16)
Guns and Talk (8/12)
The Arizona Republic (8/13)
Nero Equivalency (8/18)
Trump Supporters Under a Spell? (8/21)
Rob Robb's Economics (8/23)
Professor Koppell's Rose Tinted Spectacles (8/23)
Another Idiot With a Gun (8/31)

2018

Trumpism Defined (6/8)
How Fascism Survives and Prospers (7/8)
The Birds (7/10)
Blows Up or Grows Up (8/2)
The Election of Arizona's Education Chief (8/5)
Freedom of The Press (8/15)
Letters in The Press Supporting Trump (8/19)
Bishop O'Brien (9/2)
A Quality Education (9/14)
The Appointment of Jon Kyl to The Senate (9/15)
Evolution V Creationism (9/25)
Patriotism - The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel (10/1)
The Trump Phenomenon (10/9)
Climate Change Denier (10/10)
Socialism, The American Bugaboo (10/15)
Healthcare (10/17)
The Mob (10/22)
Cancer in The Body Politic (10/25)
Americans Abroad (10/29)
Halloween (10/31)
Guns (11/3)
Flat Earth People (11/8)
John Bolton (11/22)
Defense Budget (11/24)
China's Post War Miracle (11/26)
Rob Rob The Environment (12/22)
Tear Down Those Walls (12/22)