Push for Spanish ballots just to enhance base
What, pray tell, is the real reason behind the push toward rendering voting ballots in Spanish (“Spanish ballots for Ga. voters?” News, Jan. 15)?
Let’s see … It’ll make it easier for minorities to understand what’s on the ballot — as if immigrants shouldn’t be relied upon to learn the language of their host country. No, that would be too much trouble, apparently. But yet, my grandparents at least learned how to read the newspaper.
Aside from that, it’ll enhance the Democratic Party’s voting base in the upcoming election, while watering down the vote of every naturalized citizen, and hasten the collapse of our republic in a manner befitting that of the Roman Empire.
What’s next, bilingual “Readers Write” subtitles?
JIM WYSON, CARROLLTON
Correlation does not equal causation
Regarding a recent writer’s proclamation about marijuana being a “gateway” drug (“Marijuana a gateway drug,” Readers Write, Jan. 15). The facts don’t support that position. But don’t let facts get in the way of a slanted argument. First, and foremost, the writer quotes a high school friend, that subsequently became a cop. That cop later told him that all heroin addicts he ever met started on marijuana. Purely, an anecdotal assumption. He offers no research to support that position. He might also note that almost all heroin addicts started on milk. See the correlation? The first mantra of research is, correlation does not mean causation. No one ever died from marijuana.
DONALD VARN, CONYERS
