Tag: Dave Hoehne

Reader’s Voice: Giving thanks in such fantastic times

December 2, 2025Dear editor; With the Thanksgiving holiday behind us, I am certain I speak for Americans everywhere who, like me, are gratified by the current beautification and renovation of the White House. With millions of people facing sky-rocketing costs for necessities at the end of this month, troubling issues

Reader’s Voice: Concerning Secretary of War, Hegseth

October 5, 2025Dear editor; Pete Hegseth was confirmed Secretary of Defense on strict partisan grounds and immediately proclaimed the least qualified Defense Secretary in American history. Jonathan Chait, writer for The Atlantic, wrote after Donald Trump’s nomination of Hegseth, that it was “the most disturbing act of Trump’s presidential transition”.

Reader’s Voice: The unrecognizable Democratic Party

August 10, 2025Dear editor; Commentator Bill Suhayda in his commentary August 7, claims that the Democratic Party has been taken over by communists, anti-Semites, anti-Americans, and subversives, and consequently, the Democratic Party today is unrecognizable. It is “unrecognizable”, I suggest, because the Democratic Party that he describes exists only in

Reader’s Voice: Concerning Immigration and Customs Enforcement

July 29, 2025Dear editor; This submission concerns Reader’s Commentary on July 24 in The Voice. After his usual adolescent name-calling aimed at regular contributors to The Voice, commentator Bill Suhayda somehow gets the impression that contributors Wayne Johnson, Charles Coddington, and John W. Whitehead, being critical of I.C.E. tactics, “have

Reader’s Voice: Foreign government money in the U.S.

July 13, 2025Dear editor; This submission concerns money received from foreign governments in the U.S.. One year ago, Democratic senator Robert Menendez was found guilty in what U.S. attorney Danielle R. Sassoon called an “egregious abuse of power.” She added, “attempts to corrupt the Nation’s foreign policy and the rule

Reader’s Voice: Concern: Deportations and due process

April 20, 2025Dear editor; This concerns current deportations without due process. Regardless of how one feels toward documented or undocumented immigrants in this country, ideally, all persons on American soil are entitled by the U.S. Constitution to due process under the law. I say “ideally” because Black Americans have been

Reader’s Voice: Trouble in paradise with new admin.

March 8, 2025Dear editor; Favored guests and G.O.P. legislators smiled attentively during Donald Trump’s marathon message to Congress March 5th, where they were apparently unphased by the barrage of exaggerations and falsehoods. Standing and cheering became the norm as they competed to outdo each other, as if they were trying

Reader’s Voice: Donald Trump and the rule of law

January 27, 2025Dear editor; Concerning Donald Trump and the rule of law. Thoughts of an honest, compassionate, non-corrupt Executive Branch of the United States government proved delusional when we as the American electorate voted Trump, once again, as our president and supposed leader of the free world. For some Trump

Reader’s Voice: Agrees with Lauzen, civility needed

September 9, 2024Dear editor; This is a response to “Sticks and stones” from Sept. 5, The Voice. In calling on voters to reject junior high school behavior and name-calling, citing the current trend toward “weird” as both a description of policies and behaviors of prominent Republicans by Democrats, in particular

Before I vote for Trump: Considerations

September 1, 2024Dear editor; This concerns thoughts to consider before I vote for Donald Trump. Before I vote for Trump, I must consider whether he supports the 1873 Comstock Act mentioned by Justice Alito in the Supreme Court’s decision to repeal Roe v Wade. With the repeal of “Roe” already

Reader’s Voice: In defense of Joe Biden

May 25, 2024Dear editor; This letter is a response to Reader’s Commentary, May 16, 2024, “Biden reversed Trump accomplishments.” The foundation of the argument presented in the comments May 16 article, as I understand it, is Biden destroyed U.S. energy independence”, reversing Trump’s accomplishment; it made Putin rich, and it

Reader’s Voice: Joe Biden policy in focus

December 3, 2023Dear editor; This is to present contrasting views to statements appearing in the November 23, 2023, edition of The Voice. Imbedded in a paragraph between a sentence on children returning home from universities as “brainwashed soldiers of the Left”, and ending with Biden “destroying our energy independence …

Reader’s Voice: News credibility very important

October 22, 2023Dear editor; This opinion concerns media disinformation. With the escalation of disinformation, both political and social commentary, morphs into propaganda, while credibility plummets like a free-falling safe. Kaitlyn Tiffany, writing for the Atlantic, October 21 in an article subtitled, “Unconfirmed Atrocities are turning into memes”, she reports that

Reader’s Commentary: Thanks to two The Voice columnists

September 24, 2023Dear editor; This Reader’s Voice is to commend the commitment of Charles Coddington and Wayne E. Johnson to exposing the prolific, often unnoticed transgressions of “T. rump” and “Donny Dum Dum” as described in The Voice. Being adept at seeing beyond the carefully-scripted, false persona concealing a self-aggrandizing,

Reader’s Voice: Whiteheads’ silence thunderous

Sunday, July 30Dear editor; This concerns recent commentaries by John and Nisha Whitehead in The Voice. The Whiteheads warn us in the first paragraph of the June 22, 2023, issue of The Voice, that Donald Trump’s indictment accusing him of mishandling and hiding classified documents and obstruction of justice is

Reader’s Voice: A sense of outrage on Mr. Trump

April 10, 2023Dear editor; G.O.P. stalwarts made headlines crying, “Unfair treatment under the law!” in response to southern Manhattan’s D.A. Bragg’s announcement to indict the G.O.P.’s puppet-master. Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp fired a well-aimed fusillade at Fox Network’s chief propagandists, Carlson, Hannity, et.al. blasting their supposed outrage: “They weren’t outraged