As you must have noticed, the Poughkeepsie Journal changed the way it handles letters to the editor. Instead of putting letters for a single day in a single online file, letters are now (mostly) posted online individually. They are also posted online days, sometimes many days, before they appear in the paper, and apparently, some never get in the paper at all.

The way I’ve decided to handle this is to enter all letters that haven’t appeared in the paper yet as if they were published two days ahead of the current day. Example: If it’s Tuesday and you enter the date for Thursday, you’ll get the pending letters. You can also click the “Pending Letters” button.

My initial solution (I’ll spare you the details) resulted in the pending letters being in a rather haphazard order, making it very hard to tell what is new and what is old. Now, when you go to the pending letters page, you’ll find them in order of the date they were initially posted, with the newest first. When they appear in the paper, they’re moved to the page for the day they were published.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )

--Mid-Hudson Valley Perspective--

Target Corp. has reached an $18.5 million settlement over a massive data breach that occurred before Christmas in 2013, New York’s attorney general announced Tuesday.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--

A week filled with developments from the Trump administration has MSNBC leading primetime and CNN boasting total-day demo victories.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--Hollywood Reporter--

A conservative [sic] columnist criticized President Donald Trump for what she called a “horrendous error” regarding the classified information he shared with two Russian officials in the Oval Office.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--

Fox News on Tuesday retracted a story that played up a conspiracy theory that says a Democratic National Committee staffer was murdered after leaking DNC documents to WikiLeaks.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--Washington Examiner--

WASHINGTON - Former Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile is the high-ranking DNC representative who allegedly called police and the family of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich and demanded to know why a private investigator was “snooping” into Rich’s death, the private eye revealed to WND Monday.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--WND--

One of America’s most outspoken political leaders has a blunt description of the accusations against Donald Trump: It’s “slander.”

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--WND--

The price tag is in: It would cost $400 billion to remake California’s health insurance marketplace and create a publicly funded universal heath care system, according to a state financial analysis released Monday.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--Sacramento Bee--

Advising pregnant women not to drink alcohol is now “sexist,” according to British experts.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--TheBlaze--

It appears an even more politically correct term is on the rise that may soon replace the tried-and-true “sex-reassignment surgery” or “gender-reassignment surgery,” both of which used to be called “sex-change operation” before the PC winds blew through our cultural branches.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--TheBlaze--

Students and faculty stormed the Orange Coast College administration building Monday to protest the release of public records and demand that the administration end its “neutrality” on political issues by removing the College Republicans.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--Campus Reform--

Commentary by Michael Brown

Although President Trump’s speech before 50 Muslim leaders in Saudi Arabia did not break new ground in terms of America’s Middle Eastern policy, it was highly significant for at least four reasons.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--WND--

Commentary by Roger Kaplan

Observe, first of all, that President Donald Trump took the battle to the enemy. By contrast, and in order to not let bygones be bygones, President Barack Obama let the enemy define the battle.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--American Spectator--

Commentary by Andrew C. McCarthy

The principal fiction in the president’s speech in Saudi Arabia was the claim that we share ‘common values’ with the sharia society.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--National Review--

Commentary by Patrick J. Buchanan

Who is the real threat to the national security?

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--TownHall.com--

Commentary by Christian Robey

Recently crowned Miss USA, Kara McCullough, created a firestorm with one simple comment. When asked if health care was a right or a privilege, McCullough gave the free-market response: “I’m definitely going to say it’s a privilege.”

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--CNSNews.com--

Commentary by Michael Reagan

Normally California leftists oppose the idea of a blacklist. They contend blacklists are unfair, stigmatize people, and are judgmental. But now we learn their support or opposition to a blacklist mainly hinges upon what government for which the people in question were working.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--

Commentary by Ed Klein

John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s losing presidential campaign, is notorious for his hot temper. When he blows his fuse, people in Washington say he turns into his Evil Twin Skippy.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--NewsMax.com--

Commentary by Mark W. Pearlstein & Laura McLane

Politicians are often heard decrying fraud and abuse in the healthcare system, particularly where government payers like Medicare and Medicaid are involved. Such fraud certainly occurs: situations involving physicians billing payers for patients they did not see, or treatments they did not provide, are real. This conduct is often redressed through a law called the False Claims Act, which holds government contractors, including healthcare providers, civilly liable for multiple damages and penalties if they knowingly submit false claims to the government.

(Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2017 )   <Read it>

--Washington Examiner--