http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/?track=rss Headlines from baltimoresun.com en ©2013, baltimoresun.com Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:00 -0400 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-scandals-letter-20130519,0,703700.story?track=rss The scandals at the White House in the last few days and the lack of knowing what was going on does not wash ("IRS head forced to go," May 16). Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-cancer-letter-20130518,0,5015277.story?track=rss Oh, no! Here we go again with another "awareness conversation" ("Breast cancer: Angelina Jolie starts the conversation," May 16). After the fortunes raised by Race for the Cure and the other breast cancer groups, must we consider having both our breasts removed? I'm beginning to think being a woman is a life-long death sentence. Sat, 18 May 2013 15:30:00 EDT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-guns-letter-20130518,0,7002161.story?track=rss In reference to "Harford County Council passes resolution condemning state gun law" (May 15), the article quotes a Harford County councilman who questioned the objectivity of gun policy research at Johns Hopkins University because New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a major benefactor. Sat, 18 May 2013 14:00:00 EDT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-communism-letter-20130518,0,7566605.story?track=rss Doesn't anyone in this country know the difference between communism and socialism? Russia had communism, or whatever it is called now, and Sweden has socialism. I have been to both places and they are not the same by any means. Sat, 18 May 2013 12:30:00 EDT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-gun-law-letter-20130518,0,3343514.story?track=rss Maryland passes the strictest gun control laws in the country on its law abiding citizens ("The Maryland model for gun control," May 16), yet it does nothing about those who get caught with illegal guns. Sat, 18 May 2013 11:00:00 EDT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-krigger-20130518,0,235846.story?track=rss Thanks for Mike Klingaman 's article, which focused on Kevin Krigger and his aspirations to break the over 100-year absence of African American jockey winners at the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes ("With the weight of racing history," May 16). One quibble: The article gives the impression that African American jockeys emerged during Reconstruction, when as Mr. Klingaman writes "the sport was young, agrarian and accepting of former slaves and their kin who rode the animals they'd once cared for." Sat, 18 May 2013 09:30:00 EDT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-irs-scandal-letter-20130518,0,1278523.story?track=rss The real scandal is why the IRS approved for tax-exempt status organizations that were plainly political and not "social welfare" organizations, as section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code requires ("Taxing the tea party," May 14). The GOP's phony outrage obscures the fact that not a single application from the tea party-affiliated organizations for tax exempt status was denied. They probably should have been. Sat, 18 May 2013 08:00:00 EDT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-benghazi-watergate-20130517,0,3081366.story?track=rss In comparing the Watergate cover-up to the Benghazi cover-up, the crimes involved are completely different but still crimes ("Benghazi deserves real review," May 9). The purpose for the cover-ups, though, was the same: to re-elect the president. Nobody died at Watergate. Four Americans died at Benghazi. As yet no survivors of Benghazi have been interviewed, to my knowledge. If they have, why shouldn't the American people have a right to know what was divulged? The president during Watergate resigned, the president during Benghazi should certainly do the same. Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:00 EDT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-omalley-obama-letter-20130517,0,6048828.story?track=rss Why is it that since the current president has been in office everything that is proposed by his or Gov. Martin O'Malley's office has had to be a major change? Fri, 17 May 2013 14:30:00 EDT http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-sun-first-amendment-letter-20130517,0,4406791.story?track=rss Now comes the Baltimore Sun editorial staff that just recently blasted the Second Amendment rights to gun ownership ("Ban assault weapons," March 22) raising the roof that the press' First Amendment Rights have been trumped on because of the gathering of AP phone records by the Obama administration's attorney general ("An assault on press freedom," May 15). Either the Sun editorial staff thinks their readers are too stupid to know the hypocrisy of their positions on these two issues, or they actually believe supporting the Constitution is a menu of pick and choose. I vote for both. Fri, 17 May 2013 13:30:00 EDT