Once again the Obama administration has demonstrated how it regularly ignores or bypasses its vaunted claims of transparency. Our socialist-progressive president recognizes that his nominee (Dr. Donald Berwick – another socialist-progressive) will never pass muster in the U.S. Senate without having to outline his philosophy and planned policies.

It is obvious that a broad airing of Dr. Berwick's ideas (by the way, that's called transparency) will outrage the American people so there has to be an alternative. Mr. Obama, certainly no dummy, makes a recess appointment when the Senate is out of town for a week. The issue has been avoided, the question of Dr. Berwick's philosophy is ignored by the so-called mainstream media, and all's well with the world in the era of Obama.

To add insult to injury, The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore's socialist-progressive and, unfortunately, only newspaper, produces no fewer than two major articles extolling the excellence of Mr. Obama's choice in its Sunday (July 11) edition. You've always been a left-leaning paper but this is one of the more disgraceful demonstrations of your extreme bias.

W.C.Harsanyi, Pasadena