I'm proud that voters in my district decided to re-elect me last year, and I can assure you that my primary and general election wins were not handy, given that I was hamstrung by charges brought forth by my chief political nemesis - Corbett.
If not for the charges that removed me from leadership of my caucus, Corbett surely knew that I would be one of his premier antagonists on the House floor. That setback aside, rest assured that I intend to remain a vocal opponent of this governor on his very questionable policies and priorities.
State Rep. Bill DeWeese
D-Greene/Fayette/Washington
R-e-s-p-e-c-t
Re "The 'Hood vs. Temple," and the statement "Give us back the 'hood. If we moved into your neighborhood, you'd be burning crosses on our front yard":
Did that happen in Kensington, Harrowgate or Juniata Park when you guys took over? People don't mind anybody moving in as long as you are civil and respect other people and their property.
Bob LaVelle
Philadelphia
More than 'murder'
Buzz Bissinger's column about the media's excessive 9/11 programming was a needed rebuke.
The evil of one murder is too much, let alone seeing thousands die in this horrific footage. But the madmen who perpetrated this evil didn't want just to commit murder. They wanted to tear at the nation's heart in the process. And they succeeded.
And what were their weapons?
Not box-cutters. Not airplanes. It was the TV cameras trained on the south tower by the time the second plane hit. Their ultimate mission was to create that horrible footage, a perfectly planned, perfectly executed media event, though deadly and gruesome. This was an extension of beheading people on video: The camera is as much a weapon as the sword.
What the programming does do, however, is remind us that never for a second can we forget the evil this enemy is capable of.
Ed Kirlin
