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FILE – The headquarters for National Public Radio (NPR) stands on North Capitol Street on April 15, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Letters: Taxpayers shouldn’t support left-leaning NPR or PBS

July 16, 2025 at 2:51 p.m.

As poorly managed and nationally divisive as these two entities have been, it is hard to imagine they were ever needed, even within LBJ's Great Society.

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, people wave Chinese flags to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. (Liu Jie/Xinhua via AP)

Letter: There’s nothing ‘cool’ about the Chinese Communist flag

June 10, 2025 at 1:04 p.m.

Millions of veterans who faced down communism, along with countless millions more who suffered under it, see nothing cool about communism.

Police officers fire non-lethal weapons at anti-ICE protesters as the protesters take shelter behind barricades at the intersection of Spring and Temple, near Los Angeles City Hall, on Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Photo by Mark Savage, Contributing Photographer)

Letter: President Trump is the one stoking this chaos in Los Angeles

June 10, 2025 at 12:39 p.m.

The crisis in L.A. is all about the coming midterm elections

Several Waymo cars burn on Los Angeles Street as protests against federal anti immigration efforts have escalated with the arrival of California’s National Guard near the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los
Angeles on Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)

Letters: Trump had to act to save LA from the incompetence of Bass, Newsom

June 10, 2025 at 12:15 p.m.

Trump is cleaning up their mess and trying to make us a safer nation.

Gavin Newsom during a press conference on April 16, 2025. (AP photo/Noah Berger)

Letter: We must respect the dignity of biological females in sports

May 29, 2025 at 11:06 a.m.

It's common knowledge that trans women are faster and stronger than biological females, so why would anyone with common decency allow this immoral invasion to continue?