There are more important things than a hoops coach

I would like to thank the Review-Journal for teaching me what is important in the news. Silly me, until now I thought it was things such as the presidential races, combating terrorism, climate change, the economy, America’s gun violence problems and so forth.

Apparently, however, what’s most important is the daily activities of our newest college basketball coach (“Rebels coach tireless in recruiting,” May 15 Review-Journal). I have lost track of how many times this has been the subject of the Review-Journal’s front page.

Enough already.

Larry Ludmer

Henderson

Camera shy

Ilene Chapman is the third letter writer in the past couple of months campaigning for traffic intersection cameras (“On camera,” Wednesday Review-Journal). Is there some kind of movement going on here?

Cameras were tried before these people got here. A private company owned the concession and was fudging the speeds up for more revenue. It didn’t last long.

We don’t need cameras. Just let the cops do their jobs.

Kipp Altemara

Las Vegas

Talking heads

If you’ve become weary watching those on the major TV news stations blab on and on with inaccurate predictions and opinions about who will and will not be the next president, you are not alone. It is worth remembering that these programs do not exist to provide us with news — they exist as entertainment, no matter what anybody claims.

Contrary to what you might have heard on television, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party will survive no matter what happens between the candidates or how the party honchos feel about the candidates the people have chosen.

As it appears now, the ongoing battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will continue and gear up as the election grows near. Bernie Sanders will have failed in his attempt to dupe young men and women into believing that socialism (Marxism) is a good thing and will disappear for good this time. He’s already too old, and in four years he will be even older.

No matter who the candidates are, it is predicted that this election year will bring out a record number of voters. That is a good thing. Voting is not only a right, it is a responsibility that should be exercised rather than ignored.

Jim Armbrust

Las Vegas

President Sowell

Bravo again to columnist and professor Thomas Sowell for his outstanding thought process (“Desperate options,” Wednesday Review-Journal). His recent column captured the thoughts of many informed Americans.

I, for one, wish Thomas Sowell would have been our first black president. He has shown countless times that he would have been the president of all Americans and carried out his obligations under our U.S. Constitution, understanding America is an idea, not a place.

David Jaronik

Pahrump

Not a choice

With regard to all the silliness about “gender identification”: Statements such as, “I think I’m a girl even if I’m not,” or, “I think I’m a girl in a boy’s body,” are ridiculous — except in the case of the rare, medically diagnosed hermaphrodite.

No person can “decide” his or her sex. That decision was made at the instant of one’s existence when an ovum was met by either an X or a Y chromosome. Case closed.

Lee Bernstein

Las Vegas