News flash: McCarthy and McCarran were right

To the editor:

Review-Journal columnist Steve Sebelius and letter writer Mel Lipman need to read up on the Venona Project. Both bashed Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a true patriot. Mr. Sebelius criticized him in his Sunday column, “Rethinking renaming,” and Mr. Lipman stated in his Wednesday letter that McCarthyism was a “shameful period in U.S. history.”

With knowledge of the truth, garnered from the Venona Project, they will come to the realization that Sen. McCarthy was right on almost every one of his accusations. The Roosevelt and Truman administrations were full of Stalin’s agents, who occupied high-level positions within the White House, Congress, the Office of Strategic Services, the Manhattan Project and the departments of State and Treasury. The agents were able to gain and send a large amount of diplomatic, military, scientific and industrial secrets to Moscow. Among Stalin’s agents was Alger Hiss of the State Department.

How dare Sen. McCarthy try to root out communists and enemy agents from within our own government? Instead of reviling Sen. McCarthy, there should be a statue of him in Washington, D.C.

If Nevada Sen. Pat McCarran assisted Sen. McCarthy, then I’m fine with his name on Las Vegas’ international airport.

Mike Murphy

Pahrump

Easy money

To the editor:

Monday’s editorial, on easy federal money for a Medicaid expansion, failed to point out that should Nevada take the money, it will directly add to the national debt. It is not free. The Obama administration is playing the states like puppets, asking them to expand Medicaid eligibility by offering easy money. We need to consider this offer on more than just a provincial basis.

Henry Schmid

Las Vegas

Got off easy

To the editor:

In response to your Wednesday story, “Teens who killed kittens get detention”:

What? Detention? A slap on the wrist? Probation? Oh, give me a break!

I’m torn between two nouns, psychopath or sociopath, in describing these two brainless twits and what they did to two defenseless kittens. Either one would describe them, because neither has a conscience nor shown any remorse for drowning – and giggling while they did it – two newly born kittens.

Prior to handing down his unbelievably lenient decision, Family Court Judge William Voy should have recommended these two jackasses be waterboarded, what we do to terrorists, just to give them a slight dose of reality in what they did to those kittens.

The punishment should fit the crime. And don’t get me started on abortionists.

Mike Niederberger

Las Vegas

Proper action

To the editor:

Shockingly, it took all of a couple of days for someone to write a scathing letter about the “rogue cop” who shot and killed an exotic animal that had escaped. I thought the first letter surely would have been drafted in the first four to five minutes after the chimpanzee was killed by police.

Exotic animal lovers such as Patricia McKinney (Sunday letter) feel the “rogue cop” somehow acted inappropriately because this animal was shot and killed rather than tranquilized. The “rogue cop” in question is a 27-year veteran with the department, entrusted with protecting the public, and the “majestic animal” the writer spoke of was a 170-pound wild chimpanzee roaming freely on residential streets.

What’s “totally shameful and disgusting,” Ms. McKinney, is that you fail to comprehend the danger posed by your beloved chimpanzee. Instead of taking a run at an officer who acted well within his authority, you should be lauding the fact that there were 20 Metro vehicles on the scene attempting to put an end to a potentially deadly situation. In the future, please focus your vitriol and criticism at the parties that truly deserve it. Taking pot shots at Metro is the ignorant and easy way out.

GREGORY ARMSTRONG

Las Vegas

Unaffordable

To the editor:

In response to the Monday letter from Diane Shaul, criticizing House Republicans for trying to overturn ObamaCare and blocking Democratic initiatives:

The GOP House isn’t wasting the people’s money. It is trying to save us trillions of dollars. This so-called Affordable Care Act was supposed to cost just $900 billion in its first 10 years, but has seen its projected cost balloon to $2.7 trillion. There won’t be any job creation while this bloated health care law looms over this country. It is the struggling middle class who are on the hook to pay more than 70 percent of the $2.7 trillion cost. This thing should be renamed the Unaffordable Care Act.

Kevin Alexander

Logandale

How about ideas?

To the editor:

All the complaints President Obama makes about Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital makes me wonder: Wasn’t it Mr. Romney’s job to protect his investors? He was not a politician. He was a businessman, and obviously he was a very good one.

Now isn’t it time President Obama started doing his job?

These negative campaigns never change my mind. I vote for the person I think will do the best for the country. I personally am so sick of these ads. I’d be the first to vote for the man who donated some of those campaign dollars back into our treasury. That looks like the only way either of these two will ever be able jump-start our economy.

How about sitting down and coming up with solutions together? Either that or “None of These Candidates” will get my vote.

David Meyer

Henderson