The Nobel Prize is awarded in six categories. I respectfully recommend to the Nobel Committee that it is time to add a seventh: public corruption. That can have as much of an adverse effect on a country’s citizens as developments in peace, medicine, physics, chemistry, literature or economics yield positive effects.
National officeholders should receive priority for nomination due to the reach of their actions.
I propose the committee consider a scoring formula to rate the following attributes of nominees: (1) initiative and creativity in setting up businesses that enable favor-seekers to deposit funds directly into the officeholder’s pockets; (2) the extent of self-dealing by directing government business to entities in which the officeholder has a financial interest; (3) frequency and severity of abuses of power by ignoring norms and laws in ways that enrich an officeholder; (4) the role of one’s children in ventures that take advantage of an officeholder’s influence; and (5) the officeholder’s tolerance and/or encouragement of dubious self-enrichment schemes by their administration, their family, former employers, and former or current business partners.
If scoring yields a tie, a tiebreaker should be based on how much the nominee covets a Nobel Prize and the likelihood that the nominee would threaten or impose a penalty on members of the Nobel Committee (say, sanctions), or its host country Sweden (say, tariffs) if he’s not declared the winner.
David Feller, Boynton Beach
He could have stopped it
We have a president who’s a racist and convicted felon. Our vice president and secretary of war have potty mouths, yet they want to be taken seriously.
Really?
The president wants to stop violence in our country. He should look in the mirror. Does Jan. 6 mean anything? He called on his supporters to “fight like hell.”
He could have have stopped all of it, but his ego got in the way. That brought us to where we are today. His hatred is immeasurable, and he clearly does not want to unite our country.
Pat Eland, Delray Beach
Baked-in bias?
I absolutely dislike your publication. It is to the left what Fox News is to the right.
Your progressive bias is evident in articles, to the point that having an Opinion page is redundant. Ditto the political cartoons.
I am convinced that much of your bias is baked in, not intentional.
Regarding a Sept. 30 article, reprinted from Miami Herald: Bondi fires third federal prosecutor in South Florida. The story portrays Bondi’s action as terribly unfair, an unusual event carried out by those dastardly Republicans.
It goes on to cite the great qualifications of those who were fired, but it never mentions that this process is not unusual and in fact Biden previously purged Trump’s appointees, including federal prosecutors.
I subscribe to your publication only because it’s the only game in town for Broward and Palm Beach County news. Please try to be more objective.
Mike Corcoran, Deerfield Beach
A selective memory
The letter writer and de facto Trump son Neil Bluestein never fails to keep us amused.
He recently included a ban on “men competing in women’s sports” as an issue that Americans voted for when they elected Trump, in addition to closing the borders and deporting immigrants.
Does he really believe transgender rights was on people’s minds on Election Day? It was more like a very weak effort to come up with an issue that Trump promised and actually met, other than closing the borders and deportations.
It’s funny how the writer failed to mention Trump’s promise to immediately reduce the prices of groceries, reduce inflation, end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and reduce energy costs by 50% within six months.
It’s a typically selective MAGA memory once again exhibited by the Sun Sentinel’s most ardent Trump loyalist.
Rita Ouellette, Margate
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