Author Archives: Jonathan Allen

I would like to take the time to expound on my last letter regarding conservative political theory. In it, I stated that almost all conservative policy is derived in some way or another from the issues of responsibility and accountability. I should have gone into more depth. These are the buzzwords that conservatives use to […]

In order to create a strawman, I would need to be arguing with you. Since this is not the case, I have built no strawmen. I wanted to point out that there are other crimes for which you can be sentenced to death in this country. I find it annoying that capital punishment proponents convienently […]

Mr. Cumblidge, In your letter that took to task Mr. Ingram for “a lack of depth of scholarly inquiry,” you gave the impression that only murderers can be put to death in this country. Under various states’ constitutions, people can be put to death for treason, drug trafficking and kidnapping. Either you intentionally deceived your […]

Hey Michael, I can’t believe you spent the entire first half of your letter (Soapbox Diaries or Slander?) bragging about how you looked up “slander,” but still got the definition wrong. Unreal. Slander is the oral communication of injurious statements and libel is the written version. The key word in that is ORAL. Oral, oral, […]