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Letter: A public service announcement
The following is presented as part of The Columbian’s Opinion content, which offers a point of view in order to provoke thought and debate of civic issues. Opinions represent the viewpoint of the author. Unsigned editorials represent the consensus opinion of The Columbian’s editorial board, which operates independently of the news department.
Letter: Don’t be fooled by crime statistics
The following is presented as part of The Columbian’s Opinion content, which offers a point of view in order to provoke thought and debate of civic issues. Opinions represent the viewpoint of the author. Unsigned editorials represent the consensus opinion of The Columbian’s editorial board, which operates independently of the news department.
Letter: Some in Congress are despicable
The following is presented as part of The Columbian’s Opinion content, which offers a point of view in order to provoke thought and debate of civic issues. Opinions represent the viewpoint of the author. Unsigned editorials represent the consensus opinion of The Columbian’s editorial board, which operates independently of the news department. News / Opinion / Letters to the Editor Despicable, just despicable.
Letter: Palestinians are not innocent
The following is presented as part of The Columbian’s Opinion content, which offers a point of view in order to provoke thought and debate of civic issues. Opinions represent the viewpoint of the author. Unsigned editorials represent the consensus opinion of The Columbian’s editorial board, which operates independently of the news department.
Letter: Put limit on presidential tenure
News / Opinion / Letters to the Editor Opinion The following is presented as part of The Columbian’s Opinion content, which offers a point of view in order to provoke thought and debate of civic issues. Opinions represent the viewpoint of the author. Unsigned editorials represent the consensus opinion of The Columbian’s editorial board, which operates independently of the news department.
Letter: Focus on excellence, merit
An old fashioned, Soviet-style Commissar is currently stalking the resumes of people seeking employment or advancement in public positions at universities, hospitals and government. No longer are excellence, merit and accomplishment the primary factors in positions where federal funds are allocated. Heavily weighted “diversity statements” are now pivotal to the selection process.
Letter: Blame government for inflation
The last year has been replete with news stories about inflation and the difficulties people are having making ends meet. Inflation is always erroneously blamed on corporate greed such as Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Ag or the generic Wall Street ripping people off. It never reports on the true cause: Big Government. Inflation is caused by the increase in the supply of dollar bills. Higher prices are just the inevitable result of more cash chasing a lesser amount of goods and services.
Letter: There are no Indigenous peoples
There are no Indigenous peoples anywhere on the Earth despite all the political and academic discourse and bloviating. Every population of reasonably homogeneous members arrived at their present location having traveled from somewhere else, through either voluntary migration, forced expulsion or, more likely, conquest (with the possible exception of some remote Pacific islands).
Letter: Prevent catastrophe, arm yourself
The invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7 should send alarm sirens off in this country when it comes to border security and personal defense. Our borders have also been breached by thousands of individuals who desire to disrupt our society. Several kibbutzes were saved by volunteer militia who trained and responded to the attack. Unfortunately, ill-advised gun restrictions in Israel prevented most civilians from active defense.
Cryo-EM structure of the CDK2-cyclin A-CDC25A complex
Abstract The cell division cycle 25 phosphatases CDC25A, B and C regulate cell cycle transitions by dephosphorylating residues in the conserved glycine-rich motif of cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) to activate CDK activity.
Letter: Bring equity to sports? Crazy!
It is well past time when equity must be expanded to include collegiate and professional sports. To start with, sex-specific leagues and conferences must be eliminated; chromosomes should not dictate competitors. All sex and gender types must contest in a single association without respect to biology. Society desires it and equity demands it. Similarly, sports cannot continue to be unrepresentative of the racial mix of the city or state where the franchise is located.
Letter: Teens need mature guidance
Imagine teenagers announcing to a public school teacher or adviser that, after talking to friends and exploring social media, they want to self-identify as an alcoholic or drug addict. Of course, they don’t want their parents to know and school administrators support that demand. Despite the lifelong impact of such a serious health decision by the adolescents, school officials direct them to “addiction affirming care” as a mental health remedy.
Letter: Priorities for preservation
Before we destroy our economy with expensive and intermittent “green energy” in the attempt to disrupt inevitable, ongoing climate change, we should rationally evaluate actual global threats. The one tragedy with 100 percent certainty of occurrence with devastating results is a collision with an asteroid or comet only a few miles in size. The inner solar system is often described as a billiard tablelike motion of countless bodies impacting one another.
Letter: Reform public school system
Primary and secondary public schools spend more than $100,000 to educate students through 12 grades. The results catalogued by the National Center of Education Progress and the National Assessment of Educational Statistics paints a bleak picture of the results of all this money and time. Sizable populations of graduates are barely semiliterate with only limited knowledge of math and verbal/written skills and hardly any proficiency in science, history or civics.
Letter: Legally armed citizens save lives
Many politicians continue to demonize lawful gun ownership as a substitute for actually fighting crime. This deflection allows them to conflate the number of guns in this country with violent crime, mostly committed by a small minority of criminals. This situation is abetted by masking the benefit of defensive firearm use. Criminals are rarely afraid of the justice system or social stigma. They are only really fearful of an armed potential victim or a concealed carry bystander.
Letter: Stop scam of student loans
This administration is continuing its giveaways (unreliable Chinese solar, eagle-killing wind turbines, range-limited electric vehicles and illegal immigrant welfare) with the latest scheme of student reparations. This debt cancellation will subsidize the upper classes (over-educated and under-employed college elite), ignore the lower classes (actual and reliable workers) and stick the bill, as always, with the tax-paying middle class.
Letter: War on Poverty is a failure
By James Ault, Vancouver Published: March 5, 2022, 6:00am Post-1960s liberalism in the form of the Great Society welfare has imposed a permanent minority underclass with failing inner-city schools, a crushed work ethic, single-parent households and other cultural dependencies. Attempts to social engineer minority populations with top-down solutions have devastated a once-thriving working class.
Pocket delipidation induced by membrane tension or modification leads to a structurally analogous mechanosensitive channel state
Highlights • Pocket delipidation of TM pockets stabilizes an expanded MscL state • HDX and EPR probe conformational transitions of MscL • Bilayer stretching MD independently generates a tension-activated state • Structural analogy between these states has implications in MS channel regulation Summary The mechanosensitive ion channel of large conductance MscL gates in response to membrane tension changes.
Letter: Incarceration is based on criminality
Mass incarceration is suggested to be the result of systemic racism; a process so corrupt, historic and such a magnitude that only one analysis can explain its outcome. The reason that it actually challenges explanation is that contrary to recent belief, it is a multivariate problem. Federal, state and local jails contain about 2 million convicts of which 90 percent are males.
Letter: U.N. can’t be trusted
By James Ault, Vancouver Published: September 26, 2021, 6:00am Antonio Guterres, U.N. secretary-general, citing the report “Our Common Agenda,” warns against a future of perpetual crisis and the world facing a “pivotal moment.” The enormous stress of global life-threatening emergencies such as unchecked inequality, pandemic, climate breakdown, cyber and nuclear war, social injustice and the collapse of biodiversity has put mankind at strategic risk.
Letter: Offer a look at classrooms
By James Ault, Vancouver Published: July 14, 2021, 6:00am For over two generations our society has accepted cameras monitoring government buildings and installations, financial institutions, transportation centers, large and small commercial enterprises, sporting venues and many public spaces. Our door bells, stop lights, police uniforms and even newer automobiles have cameras to monitor compliance, safety and security.
Letter: Beware the uncurious press
By James Ault, Vancouver Published: November 21, 2020, 6:00am Early next year new episodes of classic television programing will be released. Unfortunately, it will not be “Gilligan’s Island” or “Columbo” but an updated version of that 2009 hit “The Uncurious Press”. No longer will the public be exposed to penetrating questions about pandemic deaths, impeachment allegations, collusion narratives, staff and cabinet dismissals, personal financial inquiries, salacious private behavior and nepotism.
Letter: Profiling has its place
By James Ault, Vancouver Published: March 8, 2020, 6:00am Much emotion has been vented about the racial aspect of law enforcement via stop-question-frisk. Since young, minority males are overrepresented in criminal activity it should not be surprising that they are stopped more frequently. This is not racist, sexist or ageist, just criminal characteristics. The NBA is mostly athletic, black and male (ableist, racist or sexist?).
Letter: Hold all accountable
By James Ault, Vancouver Published: December 20, 2019, 6:00am Numerous times in the past few weeks we have been told by members of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees that “no one is above the law.” However, this is not even remotely true. No one is above the law unless you are Hilary Clinton and deleted thousands of subpoenaed emails on a private server. No one is above the law unless you are James Comey and leaked confidential FBI memos to academia and media.
Letter: Gun rights are fundamental
By James Ault, Vancouver Published: August 9, 2019, 6:00am Lately, several states have passed laws continuing to restrict the enumerated civil rights of gun owners. Most of this legislation and referenda are “feel good” responses to multiple public shootings that would not have prevented the criminal from wreaking their havoc, only impede ordinary citizens from fully exercising their rights.
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