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To The Eagle: I find myself in my 78th year more confused than ever and it's not alzheimer's. I'm not sure if I'm a conservative liberal or a liberal conservative. I firmly believe, although it's really not my business being a man, that all women should have total control over their reproductive issues. The right to life until birth folks are way off base on social issues. The planet’s population is straining the natural resources nearly to the breaking point so go forth and multiply might have worked at one time but is ridiculous now. The s...
To The Eagle: The Archdiocese of New Orleans last week released a statement advising Catholics that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is “morally compromised as it uses an abortion-derived cell line in the development, testing and production of its vaccine.” The cell line used by Johnson & Johnson originated from a fetus aborted in the early 1970s. Those cells have been artificially replicated 1000's of times across many scientific firms and pharmaceutical companies. Any such cellular material has only a vanishingly distant connection to its ori...
To The Eagle: Excuse me sir, I did not suggest restricting free speech. I advocated separating the wheat from the chaff. I prefer to see printed here, items of quality. Naturally, what one considers trash, another might consider to be treasure. Our opinion forum has limited space. Only so many words will fit. When the editor sets my opinion aside so that another’s might be published instead, that is not censorship. That is editorial discretion. I’ve suggested that our editor’s discretion should favor civility over derision and facts over fanta...
To The Eagle: A contributor recently stated his opinion that our country’s Constitution was “divinely inspired.” That brings to mind the oft mentioned fallacy that America was founded as a Christian nation. Evangelicals misinterpret references to God in the words of the Founding Fathers. Those who insist that America was founded as a Christian nation run roughshod over the historical record, one example of which is The Treaty of Tripoli, approved by Congress in 1797, which declared that “. . . the Government of the United States of America...
To The Eagle: I rarely write a letter to the editor, but last week something really struck me odd. A lady wrote "Why, Mr. Editor, do you print such rubbish instead of the informative interesting stuff? Having served in the military and being a red blooded flag waving American I totally believe in the first amendment. But the lady wanting the editor to restrict free speech and only print what she considers informative is why our country is splitting right down the middle. She reminds me of my niece from California that said the Constitution...
To The Eagle: We often take much for granted in our daily routines and along comes a severe storm. Our road crews, PUD crews and law enforcement are out risking life and limb to repair and maintain our roads and power systems so emergency vehicles can transport along with providing needed power for life saving equipment. The next time you might complain about our dedicated professionals serving our communities, stop and remember the risk they put themselves in to help us be safe. Take a moment when the opportunity presents itself to say thank...
To The Eagle: A big thank you to Wahkiakum Health Department, for their well organized covid vaccine distribution; they just called for appointment for my wife, I got both mine, with only a little tiredness after second one. Also for the fire department for their contribution. It's almost a year that we have followed the mask and distance recommendations, which 45 downplayed to the detriment of so many. It's just over a month since Biden won the election fair and square, though many on the right still dispute that. “The Big Lie” which I hav...
To The Eagle: The other day I had the chance to talk with one of our school's teachers and found out, to my surprise that they had refused the vaccine for Covid-19. I think that our teachers should be required to take this vaccine due to their ongoing interaction with their students and their community. If I was superintendent it would be “Take the vaccine and continue teaching or be barred from teaching at our school.” This may sound harsh and possibly the teachers union would have something to say, but I feel that this person’s decis...
To The Eagle: A letter to the Editor described me as being childish. I guess that is one of the nicest things I have been called by those that can't seem to be cured of their Trump Derangement syndrome. That person’s letter comparing President Trump to Hitler is pretty sick stuff. Where is the same outrage over China killing more then 500,000 Americans with their lies and deceit about Covid 19? I'm not hearing it from the left. Karl Marx stated that if you tell a lie long enough people will begin to believe it, Lincoln said the truth doesn't m...
By Theron Hobbs, Jr. ©2021 The mathematical subjects of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division feel relevant to everyday life. However, the math subjects of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, or statistics don’t feel as relevant, if at all, to everyday life. Dr. Gladys West, the African-American woman who provided the data necessary for GPS (Global Positioning System), would probably beg to differ. West, born Gladys Mae Brown in 1930, grew up in a rural Virginia community. She desired something more than what her community...
To The Eagle: In response to the letter I submitted last week, I have found an overwhelming amount of information showing these conclusions. One, for the large part it seems the majority in our community and state are very pro-mask in sports and all other areas of life. Two, there is an extreme lack of leadership and ownership in this state that goes from the governor all the way to the bottom. Three, re-opening and living a normal life is not a priority to most leaders and the leaders it is important to are facing an impossible battle to get...
To The Eagle: Since the recent levy has now been certified, I wanted to take a moment to thank the voters of the Naselle-Grays River Valley School District for supporting the Educational Programs Levy. I am proud to represent a community that supports its school in this manner. Our voters’ continued support and commitment to the students of Naselle-Grays River Valley School District is appreciated. Putting hard earned money to work for the benefit of our students and community is a gift we do not take lightly. We understand and acknowledge t...
To The Eagle: . . . Meanwhile, gas prices soar, unemployment rises, energy independence dies, Middle East peace falters, Iran, North Korea, Russia and China resume sabre-rattling, illegal immigrants advance on the border, and our allies falter, all inspired by Potus Usurpus’ flurry of executive orders and imperial edicts, against the backdrop of a badly botched covid recovery and vaccination program. All this while our Congress amuses itself with an unconstitutional faux impeachment of private citizen Trump based entirely on lurid fantasy. T...
To The Eagle: I always look forward to reading The Eagle’s Letters to the Editor. It helps me keep a pulse on what our community is thinking about and why, regardless of the writer’s political bias. I especially enjoy the balanced, truth based opinions, regardless of how much it does or doesn’t align with my thinking. Contrasting this enjoyment are recent letters in The Eagle by a couple of consistent writers. They continue to seemingly justify their political bias and opinion by writing caustic, arguably false and usually combative narra...
To The Eagle: I’ve been a resident of Wahkiakum County since 2012, having lived in Portland, Oregon for 35 years; and I can tell you, that the county’s local government, particularly during this pandemic has been very responsive. I’ve been impressed that I and other residents can reach out to our county commissioners and in short order actually get a return phone call! And it’s reassuring when county health department folks actually answer the phone and reach out to residents to get them vaccinated. While Washington State’s overall vaccinati...
To The Eagle: Two authors of last week’s opinion letters “ Democrats and working people” and “Subjected to the big lie ” sounded like rude ten-year-olds flipping us the bird while talking trash about anyone at odds with them. Whatever happened to civil discourse? Why, Mr. Editor, do you print such rubbish instead of the informative, interesting stuff I’m sure is being sent in? Could Mr. Trump and his enablers actually have thought they wouldn’t suffer profound consequences after their attempt to sabotage a presidential election and then assa...
By Theron Hobbs, Jr. ©2021 Dictionary.com defines compassion as “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.” The Black Panther Party was established in 1966, and their compassion for poor and hungry children would transform the way American public schools would ensure free meals for all children. This was done through the formation and implementation of their Free Breakfast for Children Program. In January of 1969, the Black Panther Party star...
To The Eagle: While researching germ transmission in 1897, German physician Carl Flugge measured how far bacteria laden spittle traveled from the mouths of volunteers. Six feet was determined to be the average. That figure remains the universal standard for adequate social distancing. In Sweden there are caution signs exhorting folks to “Please keep a distance the size of a small moose between yourselves and others.” Doctor Flugge was obsessed with hygiene. In his day there were few effective medicines to offer the sick beyond opium and qui...
To The Eagle: I would like to draw attention to our state’s current mask guidelines regarding sports. This guideline requires masks to be worn at all times with the exception of cross country who can pull theirs down after their race begins. I firmly believe we are putting our kids at a huge risk by requiring this. Per the CDC guidelines, it is also unsafe. CDC guidelines, in short, say if masks get wet or sweaty, they need replaced, they should not be worn with mouth guards and helmets, outdoors, there’s less need for them, indoors – venti...
To The Eagle: If there is anyone with a few active brain cells that thinks the presidential election was on the up and up, then I want to sell some land at the beach when the tide goes out. The leftist prolific letter writer to the editor on the Island should stop commenting about things he seemingly knows little to nothing about like God and common sense. The Democrats are at it again. How do you impeach someone from office that's not in office? Another hateful hit job by those leftist political pathological liars that proclaim their desire...
To The Eagle: The narrative now pushed by the MSM (Main stream media) that anyone questioning the transparency of the 2020 election is pushing the “big lie.” A persuasion technique used by the Nazi Party to make WWII and the Holocaust palatable to the German people. So, if you’re following this logic, folks like myself who think the 2020 election was less than transparent are, just like the Brown Shirts in fascist Germany, who torched Jewish businesses. Politicians’ and pundits’ careless use of terms “fascist” and “nazi” for anyone who disagr...
By Theron Hobbs, Jr. ©2021 There are millions of elementary and secondary classroom educators in the United States. These educators learn the techniques of teaching and get experiences in practicing how to educate others. This season of practicing is commonly known as student-teaching. Though student-teaching is a common practice in America, what’s uncommon is American people knowing that this vocational practice was created by an African-American woman named Fanny Jackson Coppin. Coppin, born in 1837 under the name Fanny Marion Jackson, ha...
To The Eagle: As most people know the school district is taking great strides to bring back sports for the students. While sports might be important how can this be more important than the students’ education and safety? The school has set up a COVID policy that is strictly enforced which includes things like cohorts to keep children separated. Sports by their very nature go against this cohort plan. If the cohorts are so important then sports can not be allowed. Also how are we starting up sports again when our students are not allowed to g...
To The Eagle: A recent letter by a local conservative reactionary raises some questions and requires some rebuttal. How have we lefties “ruined our elections?” Your answer will be more credible if it omits any mention of the thoroughly debunked charade of a stolen election. You contend that “our nation’s freedom is sorely challenged by the low intelligence of an ever increasing uneducated populace.” Your presumption that the uneducated lack intelligence is both insulting and false. Admittedly, our former paragon of presidential ignorance...
Editor's note: I've long felt that there's a tremendous lack in our educational system about the contributions of African Americans to the development of the United States. Knowing that former Puget Island resident Theron Hobbs, Jr., has written on the topic, I invited him to provide four columns for our weekly publications in February, which is observed as Black History Month. Here is his first column. Juan Garrido: A Great Explorer and Farmer By Theron Hobbs, Jr. ©2021 When many Americans think of Black History Month, they tend to see the...
