This is in response to Leonard Hoy, “The failure of America” (March 14). Apparently, President Obama is (solely) responsible for diminishing America’s “greatness and common purpose.” Two fallacies there: That a President has that kind of power and that there was a “common purpose” when Obama came to office. Let’s take a look. Before 2008, […]
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Austin Bay: Options for confronting Putin’s three cold facts
The cold fact of European geo-political history distinguishing March 18, 2014, from March 17, and, for that matter, making it precariously unlike any other day since the end of World War II is this: Military aggression in Europe by a major European power has led to political annexation and territorial expansion. On Feb. 25, Russian […]
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Cal Thomas: American foreign policy lacking in substance
What happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may eventually be discovered, but there is something else that has been missing for much longer and its “disappearance” has far greater implications for America. It is our foreign policy. Can anyone say what it is? With Russia’s Vladimir Putin behaving like a modern Catherine the Great in […]
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J. Sawyer: Not a broken promise, a blatant lie
The public is being told, again and again, that President Obama “broke a promise” when millions of people were told their health insurance couldn’t be renewed because it didn’t meet the guidelines of ObamaCare. He did say, “You can keep your insurance coverage if you like it.” And, “If you like your doctor, you can […]
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N. Bourgoin: Obama administration is corrupt
This is in response to Ellen Field’s letter (Feb. 28) about “stuff” the Democrats want. They actually want a lot more than what she included, such as putting legislation together behind closed doors, pass it “by hook or by crook” (stressed by Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.), and become the law without being read. That is why […]
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N. Willard: A few things to wonder about
I think future historians will have positive things to say about Obama’s eight years as president. I doubt the “tea party” and George W. Bush fare as well. I wonder how those who say climate change is not a real and serious threat to our planet can look their children and or grandchildren in the […]
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W. Lutz: America becoming dictatorship
Here we go again — President Obama changing the Affordable Care Act all on his own. I remember from my civics class that the Congress makes the laws. The president signs the legislation into law and then is required to enforce it. He doesn’t have the authority to change it or not enforce it just […]
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B. Sullivan: We have been delivered
Praise be! Our sainted socialist-in-chief has delivered us from dreaded job lock. Now that his horrific health care bill has eliminated millions of present and future jobs, we are free to pursue our dreams of being painters and poets. We can sit on our collective duffs and sculpt and scribe while the less enlightened go […]
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L. Hoy: What could go wrong?
The government told bankers, “Make housing loans to people who can’t afford to keep them up. Don’t worry about defaults — the federal government will guarantee every loan you make!” “OK!” said the mortgage bankers. “What could go wrong?” The president told the Congress: “Pass this stimulus bill. Millions of shovel-ready jobs and my buddies […]
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Cal Thomas: Obama’s speech simply more misinformation
Suppose a president of the United States delivered a State of the Union address and nobody cared? Isn’t that what happened Tuesday night when the increasingly irrelevant — and, yes, boring Barack Obama — droned on about predictable things in a predictable way? We have been forced to listen to him so many times (often […]