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Dems need dads
Miranda Devine appropriately factors to a actual downside for Democrats: To appeal to voters, they’ve chosen and promoted male candidates who’re fishermen, hunters, ex-military, ex-law enforcement or astronauts, all to no avail (“Oh, man! These Dems are dumb & dumber,” July 16).
Perhaps it’s as a result of they’ve ignored a group of manly males who voters would truly determine with: males who’re devoted fathers and husbands.
Anthony Daddiego
Flushing
JD places us first
I applaud Vice President JD Vance for sharing his candid views on the Middle East on Joe Rogan’s podcast (“Don: I’ll obliterate ’em,” July 16).
He is the one rational voice in opposition to an “indefinite war” within the Trump administration. I love his boldness in confronting the warfare faction, whereas sustaining fierce loyalty to President Trump. His “America first” strategy to governing would make him a great future president of the United States.
Nick Gatsoulis
Manhattan
No booze is protected
The “Cheers for Change” initiative seeks to cut back or get rid of present rules relating to the sale of alcoholic drinks in New York state (“Spirited booze law campaign,” July 13).
But in line with the US Surgeon General’s 2025 advisory, alcohol consumption is answerable for nearly 100,000 most cancers circumstances and 20,000 most cancers deaths yearly. There’s additionally no protected degree of alcohol consumption: 17% of alcohol-related most cancers deaths contain people who don’t exceed the really helpful every day limits.
We need a totally different type of initiative — a marketing campaign to make people understand that ingesting alcohol in any quantity carries actual dangers to life and health.
Mark Hoglund
Brooklyn
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Justice for E. Jean
After listening to that President Trump has lastly paid E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million for sexual assault and defamation, there may be solely factor to say: Chickens are coming home to roost (“Trump payout in sex case,” July 15).
I’m trying ahead to her receiving the opposite $83 million in damages she’s awarded in one other lawsuit in opposition to him.
Paul Newman
Merion Station, Pa.
Of clocks and youngsters
The semi-annual altering of the clock causes confusion and upset in some merely for a one-hour disruption (“Daylight saving all year,” July 15).
However, most people by no means sleep a stable eight hours with out pondering twice about it.
Under everlasting Daylight Savings Time, a morning solar will rise after 8 a.m. in winter. Children could also be strolling to highschool or to their buses in whole darkness, typically in harmful areas.
For an emotional disruption that lasts a few days, politicians would expose probably the most weak to months of actual hazard. While debating the laws, had been they requested in regards to the risk it poses to youngsters?
John Brindisi
Manhattan
Don’t invite rats
Your article reveals that the East Village is “still littered with piles of black garbage bags tossed onto the street” (“Oh, cheese! Rats invade East Village,” July 14).
Where are the sealed bins? Loose trash luggage, rampant littering and uncleanliness trigger rodents to remain and reproduce. While rodent management is a half of life, it’s a disgrace that many human actions appeal to rodents and then we brutalize them with issues like glue traps.
James Scotto
Yorktown Heights
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