Coverage woefully lacking on key stories

In the Jan. 29 “Our View,” you say you have “an important role to play in informing the public and in exposing problems and wrongdoing” and that you “have a weighty responsibility to help engage the public in an ongoing debate over the way we all are governed, the problems we face and how they should be solved.”

But your reporting falls woefully short of those ideals. On Jan. 26, President Obama was to appear (by subpoena) before Judge Michael Malihi in Georgia to prove his eligibility to be placed on Georgia’s 2012 Presidential Ballot. The Constitution requires that the POTUS be a natural born citizen, interpreted as meaning born of two citizen parents. Since Obama’s birth father was a British subject and his adoptive father was an Indonesian citizen, Obama’s eligibility is questionable.

Mr. Obama snubbed the court by refusing to appear (and by keeping all his records under seal) and, as a result, will likely not be allowed on Georgia’s 2012 Presidential ballot. Several other States are prepared to follow Georgia’s lead.

On Jan. 23 as many as 500,000 pro-life demonstrators marched from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to the Supreme Court.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is under investigation in the “Fast & Furious” Mexican gunrunning fiasco which resulted in the death of a border patrol agent. Other current issues are the bankruptcy of Solyndra after a $553 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department; the announced bankruptcy of ENER1, an $118 million grant recipient; and insider trading by members of Congress and the Administration.

You have apparently failed to cover all these issues. Your woeful lack of coverage of these items belies your purported “duty to do this work — despite ... the reflexive criticism it sometimes provokes, the hurt feelings it often spawns.”

Marvin S. Schulgen

Lombard