Democrats' true colors finally emerging

When not in power, Democrats became adept at masking their underlying premises and policy intentions. Knowing that revealing their socialist agenda would frighten the bejeebers out of normal Americans, liberals pretend to be centrists, eschewing the "liberal" moniker for "progressive."

When campaigning for president in 1992, Bill Clinton promised to make abortion "safe, legal and rare." After watching Republicans spend like LBJ social planners for 10 years, House and Senate Democrats in 2006 claimed they would restore fiscal sanity to Washington.

During the 2008 campaign, Obama promised to expunge ineffective, wasteful federal programs. Adapting quicker than a terrified chameleon, Democrats gunning for office appear amiable, gracious, inclusive, holding the welfare of the nation and its people above all else.

Once in power, the underlying attributes and ambitions of Democrats inevitably bubble up. Having campaigned in the center, they govern from the far left.

President Clinton unleashed gays in the military and Hillary-care. Following the Democratic takeover of Congress in 2006, voters were wildly disappointed as one campaign promise after another remained unfulfilled.

Now, we are just beginning to see the truth about Obama's "Change We Can Believe In." Firmly in control at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, Democrats' true colors are becoming visible. It's a scary sight.

Jerry Pomeroy

Sun City

Writer quibbles about small mistakes

Mr. Curtis Croulet (Letters, Jan. 21) takes great pleasure in small glitches in things I said that pointed out the glaring weaknesses of evolution theory, like the use of "Journal" instead of "magazine" in my letter (Letters, Jan. 14). Or when I quoted Isaac Asimov, leaving out the word "energy," and that this somehow becomes important, but I don't think it would change Asimov's mind. ("In the game of energy and thermodynamics, you can't even break even"). What do you think he meant? I found the attribution of the quote about evenly distributed to between June and August 1970; now if that is significant in some petty way, then enjoy yourself.

Completing Asimov's quote that, "for it is on that energy that life subsists," is interesting, for the availability of energy (the First Law of Thermodynamics) has in itself no inhibition for thwarting the basic decay principle of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Quantity of energy is not the question, but quality! Before there was life, the sun would have destroyed life's possibility by UVs of the supposed chemicals for life.

Paraphrasing John Ross, entropy applies to open and closed systems. No comment? There is no evidence that temporal or local violations of the law exist. If you know of any, collect your Nobel.

Croulet has quibbled about small specks, but there is a log lodged in his visual cortex such that he cannot see the whole picture, nor does he want to.

Irvin Forbing

Escondido

Stick with Abe if given the choice

Bradley Fikes' essay on Charles Darwin's 200th birthday is an example of how deception is used to promote a theory that is getting long in the tooth ("Darwin's 200th birthday worth celebrating," Feb. 2).

Fikes makes the oft-repeated mistake of crediting Darwin for discovering natural selection, and equating it with evolution as if the two were one. He also implies the created kinds of genesis are the same as the species of the classification system. Mr. Fikes should know better: The classification system is a man-made system, and is arbitrary.

Fikes goes on to claim that bacterial resistance to antibiotics is an example of evolution in action. Any scientist worth his salt knows this is an example of variation, not evolution. Some microbes have always been resistant to antibiotics, and those that survive increase in number. They started out as bacteria and remain as bacteria.

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day, and both men changed the world. Lincoln inspired people to treat others as equals, but Darwin's book, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" inspired men such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Josef Stalin.

I'll stick with Lincoln.

Ezra Chapman

Winchester

Don't force education on all

It appears all over again. The PTA wants money for schools. The teachers want more money. The problem is that they are not giving any ideas on where this money should come from. Or where do we take it from? Which government program do we shortchange? If class size was so great, why is our high school dropout rate so high? I don't think we should force education on someone who doesn't want to learn. We will still need people to work in low-paying jobs.

Edward Gersich

Murrieta

'Stimulus' just a confiscation of tax dollars

A huge spending bill just passed the Senate. They are calling it a stimulus package, but it's a spending bill like we've never seen before. It contains thousands of pet projects and earmarks without creating jobs or revenue. It's the largest transfer of money to the government in our history.

What does nationalized health care have to do with stimulus? Nothing, but it's in the bill. A new bureaucracy, the national coordinator of health information technology, will be created to monitor treatment and make sure your doctor is doing what government deems appropriate and cost-effective. Since when does the government know what's cost-effective or medically appropriate?

The hidden gems in this bill tell me that no one has really read it or comprehends the impact. Never before have we witnessed such an irresponsible confiscation of taxpayer dollars.

Let's step back from the abyss. Contrary to President Barack Obama's frenzied urgency, the government will cause irreversible damage by passing a flawed bill. We don't need a reckless euro-socialist confiscation of tax dollars that will sentence us to stifling tax rates and inflation. We can't afford this bill, and we can't just print money to pay for it.

Jason Tibbels

Murrieta