Jimmy Carter is volunteering to go back to North Korea to defuse that country’s nuclear saber-rattling (“Useful Idiot 2,” Editorial, April 12).
This just goes to show how out of the loop Carter still is. He still hasn’t heard that the go-to guy for all matters in Pyongyang is Dennis Rodman.
Bill Viggiano, Williston Park
Fracking science
“Gov. Cuomo’s Ugly Message to Biz” disparages the governor’s common-sense approach of letting science and not politics guide New York’s approach to hydraulic fracturing (John Krohn, PostOpinion, April 11).
As a geologist and chair of the NYC Council Committee on Environmental Protection, I am well aware, as are Gov. Cuomo and his environmental team, of emerging science on not only the possible health effects from fracking but also “induced seismicity potential.”
A recent study in the journal Geology concluded that a 5.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Oklahoma in 2011 was linked to oil/gas-drilling wastewater injected beneath the oil/gas field two decades earlier.
Similar findings are being reported by the US Geological Survey and the National Research Council.
Seismic activity poses a great risk to the city’s underground tunnels that bring water from the Catskills to 9 million New York City and Westchester residents. The governor has not only the right but also the obligation to have his decisions informed by the latest and best science on the potential health and seismic impacts of fracking.
Council Member James F. Gennaro, New York City Council, District 24, Queens
Masking danger?
Can the city prohibit these grubbers from milking money from tourists by invoking a provision of the Homeland Security laws (“Missing the Naked Cowboy,” Mark Cunningham, PostOpinion, April 9)?
There should be a clause that stops people from disguising themselves and blending with large crowds in a public arena.
The Naked Cowboy can’t be hiding much, but the furry fiends could be packing heat.
Ray Hackinson, Ozone Park
Killing machines
Conservative Sen. Pat Toomey’s gun-control sellout raises a valid question (“Bungling the Gun Fight,” John Podhoretz, PostOpinion, April 12).
If we decide who can own a gun for home defense, we should also use the same yardstick for owning or accessing a 4,000-pound vehicle. Should a person who cannot legally own a gun be able to drive a car or fly an airliner?
My risk of injury or death from medicated commercial pilots and drivers is greater than from someone with a gun in his home.
Joseph DuPont, Towanda, Pa.
Hova and Havana
As someone who was born in Cuba and whose parents left there so that I could be raised in a free nation, I was upset by the recent visit by Jay-Z and Beyoncé (“Jay-Z’s Havana Nights,” Editorial, April 10).
The trip was, not surprisingly, exploited for propaganda purposes by the communist regime there.
When faced with justified criticism, I hoped that Jay-Z would apologize to his critics for the perception that the trip created or at least clarify his reasons for being there.
Instead, he recorded a rap song that showed no remorse.
The trip itself was bad enough. His arrogant insensitivity is intolerable.
J. Miyares, Jacksonville, Fla.