Lefties’ assisted suicide push and more: Letters to the Editor — June 15, 2025

Slide to suicide

Rep. Elise Stefanik was spot on (“Cruel ‘Choice,’ ” PostOpinion, June 12)!

While the heartless and soul-less “compassionate” far-leftists who have wormed their way into a near supermajority in the Legislature strike one more blow against faith and humanity, our governor has her licked finger in the air looking for direction and/or donations.

While the left and its media sycophants chastise President Trump and Republicans as “Nazis,” the left quietly goes about passing pro-euthanization laws that would put a smile of the faces of Josef Mengele and Adolf Hilter.

They are in favor of aborting the viable and now exterminating the ill. Assisted suicide has now become one of Canada’s top causes of death. Our self-serving “leaders,” who couldn’t run even a small business, are pushing New York down a path towards spiritual, moral, economic and physical death.

Demetrius Kalamaras, Staten Island

Tulsi’s nuke fears

If Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard wants to get us away from “nuclear holocaust,” she can begin by supporting stronger arms to Ukraine (“Doom to repeat,” June 12).

The conflict began in 2014, when the Obama administration failed to enforce the Budapest Memorandum and punish Russia for illegally annexing Crimea.

There’s a direct link between that failure and the current administration not being able to convince Iran to give up enriching uranium. The Iranians have seen first-hand what happens when a country does just that. The only way to fix this is a decisive victory for the rule of law.

Daniel Kuncio, Tribeca

Name games

In regards to Connetquot High School and their “Thunderbirds” team name, there is currently an American Hockey League team in Massachusetts by the name of the Springfield Thunderbirds (“$23M for the birds,” June 11) The team’s inaugural season was 2016!

If a professional hockey team can call themselves the Thunderbirds (with a bird mascot), there’s no reason why a high school can’t keep/use the same name.

James Lautier, Windsor, Conn.

Reining in rats

Thank you for “NYC’s rat war family feud now” (June 10).

Cleanliness is ideal and a great deterrent. Containerizing trash has been helping, which makes sense. When food isn’t available, then there won’t be many rodents around.

The article also mentions lacing rat bait with birth control. Tactics like this seem far more humane than glue traps, which cause prolonged and severe suffering, all while doing nothing to address root causes.

Many people may not like rats, but they shouldn’t have that type of agony inflicted upon them.

In terms of disease, the Centers for Disease Control advises against glue traps because the urine from stuck animals is out in the open and can spread pathogens.

James Scotto, Yorktown Heights

Cow control

So now our lefty pols are concerned with cow methane and manure pollution (“The War on . . . Cows?” Editorial, June 11).

If there were a million cows in New York, it wouldn’t compare to the pollution currently created by the methane excreted from the mouths of these brainless progressives.

Karl Olsen, Watervliet

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