Opinions - Entries from March 2010

Opinions - Topics from March, 2010

Don’t ask why

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Wednesday, March 17. 2010

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Dear Editor,
If most parents, adults and those in authority would look at the way they are living or the example they are setting for the younger generation, they would not ask why. When it comes to children, the mother is the most important teacher in a child’s life. Their training starts while the child is in the womb. The character of a child will become a permanent fixture from birth until the child is about five or six years old.
We continue to lose our children because of the lack of proper training. The state or federal government has added insult to injury by passing a law that gives a student permission to drop out of school at age 16 without a parent’s consent. [Full Story »]

Sophism to the people of Dodge County

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Wednesday, March 17. 2010

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I open this response with an excerpt from a historically recent book entitled “Sophisms of the Protectionists” -F. Bastiat 1863, note the year, 1863, not 2003.
“We take from you again, in order to compensate you for what we have already taken.”
After reading the opening article entitled “Authority seeks more funds for airport” the “too big to fail” syndrome that has become a political vehicle to pillage this country, even further through taxation, of the present generation’s and its posterity of the value of a person’s labor. This book would open a person’s thoughts and clearly explain our present situation as a nation. The government budget process is nothing short of custom shackles being made to fit future generations. [Full Story »]

Going liberal

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Wednesday, March 10. 2010

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Thoughts From The Right Side
By Marshall Miller

Angry White Dude, one of my favorite commentators (andrywhitedude.com) says “going postal” when a person snaps and becomes violent is an outmoded term. Regarding the recent armed “visitor” at the White House gate shot by police: [Full Story »]

Exceptionalism backlash

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Wednesday, March 10. 2010

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A Little Common Sense
By Rich Lowry

President Barack Obama learned from Bill Clinton’s mistakes in 1993-94. He ran, relative to Clinton, a buttoned-up transition. He sought to avoid Clinton’s tactical miscues on health care. And he steered clear of cultural land mines.
The backlash against Democrats in 1994 was famously attributed to “gays, guns and God.” Obama has mostly avoided stoking opposition around that hot-button triad, but faces a backlash almost indistinguishable in feel and intensity. Why? [Full Story »]

One of the greatest and best remembered years of my life

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Wednesday, March 10. 2010

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Dear friends and former students,
I was delighted when you asked me to attend the Rhine School Reunion and to have a part on the program. I want everyone to know that I would have been there with you had it not been for the fact that we are at present having some rather severe health problems. [Full Story »]

Save some big money

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Wednesday, March 3. 2010

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Thoughts From The Right Side
By Marshall Miller

Do you want to save some big money for the USA? We should close most or all of the more than 800 military bases we operate in other people’s countries. Could you imagine some other nation setting up military bases in the United States? Other countries generally seem to like our presence there since we spend a lot of money there, in many cases keeping their economies afloat. [Full Story »]

Nancy Pelosi’s last charge

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Wednesday, March 3. 2010

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A Little Common Sense
By Rich Lowry

In keeping with his new spirit of compromise, President Barack Obama has offered a health-care bill staking out middle ground between House and Senate Democrats.
At $950 billion, it’s more expensive than the Senate bill, but cheaper than the House bill, and mixes and matches sundry tax proposals. Obama has again proved himself a committed bipartisan leader -- if liberals from the House and liberals from the Senate are considered political parties. [Full Story »]

Escapism vs. Identification

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Wednesday, March 3. 2010

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Dear Editor,
No matter how great of a nation America has become there are many things one can say about her citizens. As time continues to pass the citizens of this community as well as the nation continue to disconnect. When we think of one nation under God, the citizens of this nation continue to cross the boundaries of unity. [Full Story »]