I have not written a letter to the Ledger Dispatch in a long time due to the obvious bias to liberal politics. The buying in of the battle of the classes and how more should be taken from the rich and given to the poor. Or that the burden of taxes should rest squarely on the top 10 percent of wage earners. Also the lamenting of the gas prices even though we are not allowed to drill for oil in order to lessen our burden on foreign oil.

Yes, the caribou thrive around the Alaskan pipeline and they would not be affected by the drilling. If you are waiting for hybrid cars, hydrogen cars or electric cars to take the burden of oil away, then you have at least a decade or two to wait. This economy runs on oil and we must for some time have it. We may not have been in as bad a shape had we built nuclear power plants to take some of the fossil burden off but I believe that was taken away too by environmentalists.

The complaint I read about the jobs here in Amador County and how we are a slave to the casinos was not always the case. There was a large mill here that had lots of good jobs, but they were forced out of business, Now California cannot even cut the trees that need to be gotten rid of in order to manage the forest.

The war that we are in is due to misinformation to all western and eastern nations, whom all thought that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Well, if terrorism had been handled during the Clinton watch, which he bungled badly, we would not have this problem now. If you believe that anti-war rhetoric is going to help end this war without a slaughter of civilians in Iraq, then you are naive. To leave at this juncture would encourage our enemy and he will continue on his blood-thirsty march. I witnessed this at the end of the Vietnam war and hope that this will not happen again, but when the going gets tough the liberal curls up in a ball and cries.

It's tough and many good men have died and been maimed all for our safety. But it is a job that should be carried out to fruition. If this newspaper were objective in its editorials, I might consider keeping it because I do like the local news, but I am tired of the one-sided propaganda that comes out of it. Hmm, maybe that's why newspapers are losing readers. Well, hope to get more conservative editorials elsewhere because I know your team at the Ledger will not.