Dear Amarillo Globe-Republican,

There you go again. You contradicted yourself. In a February 7 editorial you praised the Amarillo City Commission for sending the proposed ban on smoking in public places back to the voters. You did it yesterday, too, going a step further and pooh-poohing those Yankee lawmakers in Maryland who plan to vote on a similar measure themselves. State legislators proposing legislation and then voting on it? Who do they think they are?

Curiously, though, yesterday's other editorial, right below the first, exalts the Borger City Council for voting on a curfew that keeps kids under 17 off the streets at night. Uh...shouldn't the Borger City Council have sent the issue to the voters so they could decide for themselves?

It would seem defending your political allies has more to do with your position than anything resembling logic.