Kudos to airline on big-game trophies
Delta Air Lines should be congratulated for prohibiting the transport of big-game hunting trophies (“Delta restricts hunting trophies,” Business, Aug. 4). This policy change will make more people aware of the issues related to the future of the big animals in Africa.
Poachers killed 40,000 elephants last year. At that rate of killing, the wild African elephant will be extinct in 10 years. Awareness needs to be focused on this extraordinary situation, which is equally dire for the rhino as well. Poaching is, by far, the biggest threat to wild animal species on the planet. Unless we bring some new thinking and tools to the table, our children will grow up without these most iconic of animals, and humans will have sacrificed the opportunity to turn back the trend that leads some to value wild animals only when they are dead.
JOHN L. PETERSEN, CHAIRMAN, CHARLES A. & ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH FOUNDATION.
AJC, your liberal bias is showing
The progressive agenda of the AJC editorial staff is showing again. You broke your own Letters to the Editor 150-word rule by printing Susan Berryman Rodriguez's opinion supporting President Obama's very unpopular and costly Clean Power Plan ("Make health No. 1 priority," Opinion, Aug. 12). This editorial not only greatly exceeded the word-length rule, it dominated the entire space set aside for reader responses.
A few years back, you made some effort to be more balanced. After all, it was easy to be less progressive, with Obama winning the presidency and Democrats controlling both houses of Congress. But over the last few years, the nation moved decidedly back to the center, and the AJC has ratcheted up its liberal agenda. The editorial staff at the AJC has lost all credibility.
BUTCH ENTREKIN, STOCKBRIDGE
Story bigger than placement shows
In the Aug. 12 AJC, the newspaper hid the Clinton e-mail server story (“Clinton to hand in email server,” News) at the bottom of page A6. This story is much more important and significant than most of your front-page stories. Your political bias is so obvious to your readers. Why don’t you just go ahead and be more balanced, and we would all be much more proud of your paper.
ALLAN BATCHELOR, BREMAN
Pastor protection merely base politics
As one who has solemnized more than 400 marriage vows over 55 years, I find Speaker David Ralston’s proposed “Pastor Protection Bill ” entirely otiose (“Clarifying clergy’s right of refusal,” Opinion, July 31). The only comfort it can conceivably provide is to the speaker himself. He probably assumes that many religiously fervid but dense voters will regard him as a hero.
REV. JOSEPH D. HERRING, JOHNS CREEK
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