Eric Flowers

Wow, Charles Sweckert's letter is a difficult one to reply to because it's so rhetorical – no facts, just questions.
Military recruiters have a place they can recruit; it's called a recruiting station. They have no business preying on our junior and high school students.
I think it is important that those of us who are supporting the troops by working for peace have organized peace vigils for five years in Bend, while the pro-war fanatics want to send our children off to two wars based on nothing but lies.

As The Bulletin searches high and low to find political columnists who mirror the local newspaper's incredibly conservative viewpoints, it probably needs to be pointed out what a fine job they have done with their addition of Bill Kristol. This is his most recent insight (Sunday, Feb.

The recent comments by David Rosell, chairman of the Bend Chamber of Commerce, regarding the skiing at Mt. Bachelor are extremely short-sighted. In 20 years' time the Bend Chamber will be considering installing a monorail up to Mt. Bachelor to facilitate all the winter visitors to Central Oregon.

It is interesting that Bruce Miller saw fit to highlight and conclude his article with the following quote from Bill Friedman, "The disagreement comes about because some owners believe that somehow, magically, they ain't going to have to pay for it (the repairs)."
Unless by "some people" Friedman is referring to the Papes and by "magically" he is referring to their recent allegedly fraudulent activity at the Inn, which somehow I doubt, this attempted "spin" on Friedman's part has absolutely no basis in fact.

I am pleased to see that the recent Climate Teach-Ins drew so much attention. One question: Who is talking about population growth as a driver of climate change? My guess is that it's still too volatile a topic for anyone - politicians, newspapers, even students - to talk about.

In the beginning there was the river and the mountains, and it was good. Then came the Indians.

The surprising results of the New Hampshire primary have conjured up the same questions that arose following the victories of Bush the Younger in the past two elections.
Who really won The big question revolves around the use of Diebold electronic vote counting machines, which can be easily manipulated and leave no paper trail.
Hillary Clinton's win in New Hampshire was clearly in contrast to expert expectations and, more importantly, the exit poll interviews. In precincts where machines were used, Hillary Clinton won, but where paper ballots were hand-counted, Barack Obama won.