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Black allegiance to Democrats misplaced
Black History Month is a good time to remind people that Democrats professed an apparent contradiction as they seceded to begin the Civil War. They demanded protection for slavery and the right to take their "peculiar property" into the territories. They demanded to be able to trade their "property" across state lines and demanded that states enforce the Fugitive Slave Law. Yet during prior and final congressional debates and on their constitution, southerners joined the near-universal condemnation of international slave trading. Published February 6, 2022
Biden’s dangerous dealings with foes
Will Americans ever reach a tipping point, one at which they say they have had enough of the Biden administration? It is a pertinent and reasonable question because this administration has already put the country through cataclysmic changes and crises. Would the American people have consented to the impeachment of President Trump under similar circumstances? This question needs to be asked, acknowledged, comprehended and then answered. Published February 6, 2022
Privacy not an ‘unalienable’ right
Andrew Napolitano's championing of freedom over security is mostly proper and admirable ("All government domestic spying is a violation of personal freedom," Web, Feb. 2). Freedom is an inalienable right for everyone. But it always has consequences, and nature's design does not allow us the freedom to avoid those consequences when we abuse it. Published February 6, 2022
Biden court criteria are racist, period
One would think Biden had learned not to make race and gender the criteria of selection to a position, given how his vice-presidential pick turned out ("Biden's Supreme Court discrimination," Web, Jan. 28). However, this inept, unqualified, incapable and evil man got just what he and his ilk wanted: racism and division, a demeaned candidate, an attempted political payoff and distraction. Published February 3, 2022
Why is U.S. in Beijing Olympics?
In 1936, members of the American Olympic Committee were either hoodwinked or chose to overlook Nazi abuses, as little opposition was raised to American participation in that year's games. In 1980, then-President Jimmy Carter's unpopular decision to withdraw America from the Moscow Olympics displayed a strong stance against the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Published February 3, 2022
No other nation offers land to aggressors
A number of so-called human rights groups have gratuitously attacked Israel for years -- while ignoring the rampant Islamic terrorism and abuses of Israel's neighbors, both in the Middle East and abroad ("Amnesty joins rights groups in accusing Israel of apartheid," Web, Feb. 1). Published February 3, 2022
Apology, suspension insufficient
Being a card-carrying member of a Virginia-recognized Indian tribe but looking more white than the Hollywood version of an "indigenous" person, I have often been prohibited from dancing, singing and socializing at powwows. And although not easily offended myself, I was truly appalled at Monday's Holocaust comment by "The View" host Whoopi Goldberg. Published February 2, 2022
Forced to get an ineffective vaccine
I had to chuckle when I read that not only have the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tested positive for COVID-19, but so has the secretary of the Navy ("Secretary of the Navy Del Toro going into quarantine after testing positive for COVID," Web, Jan. 31). Published February 2, 2022
Fed up with left’s one-party rule
The question of "What are Republicans for?" raised in "Democrats devise plan to beat odds in midterms, hold on to House majority" (Web, Jan. 31) doesn't require a rocket science or even a political science degree to answer. The foundation of the GOP can be captured in three words: freedom, security and prosperity. Published February 2, 2022
Stand strong against China, Russia
Those of us who have gone to war and lived to come back with battle scars, either mental or physical, know a good leader from a bad one. "King" Biden, with his Cheshire-Cat-grin defense mechanism, is a bad one. He inept and mentally not up to the challenge of defending this country. Published February 1, 2022
Democrats keep dusting off Hillary
Hillary Clinton is a well-educated woman but her lust for power combined with her vivid imagination disposes her to take dangerous, if not reckless, measures to reach her personal objectives. She was and still is well aware that language creates consciousness and consciousness creates reality. A case in point is her important and controversial role, which came to light during the 2016 presidential campaign, in the creation of an insidious report claiming that her opponent, Donald Trump, was a traitor to the nation. Published February 1, 2022
Abandonment of science killed many
There is no such thing as a 'zero-COVID-19 zone' anywhere in the world ("Beijing clamps down before Winter Olympics: Rolling lockdowns, daily COVID-19 tests," Web, Jan. 31). The latest variant is far more infectious than its predecessors. The viral evolution was predicted months ago by knowlegeable viroligists who were experts in the population effects resulting from the administration of a leaky, non-sterilizing vaccine to an infected population with a highly mutable virus. This has been one of the biggest public health crimes you will ever see in your lifetime. Published February 1, 2022
End the ‘hoax’ era
America has witnessed many eras. Is it fair to say we are now in the hoax era? Published January 31, 2022
Supreme Court choices already political
Selection of a Supreme Court justice is political and both Republicans and Democrats choose nominees based on their best idea of how the person will adjudicate cases ("Sen. Susan Collins: Biden pledge to name Black woman to Supreme Court will politicize institution," Web, Jan. 30). Once the Senate confirms, the justice is supposed to render decisions based solely on the Constitution and precedents. In other words, he or she is meant to decide without adherence to personal political preferences. In general the justices adhere to that guideline, but in cases wherein a decision will impact society in an outsize manner, the court divides into two major groups informed by political preference. The liberal group visualizes penumbras from the Constitution that the conservative group doesn't see. In other words, conservative flights of judicial fancy are more constrained than liberal journeys into progressive shadows. Published January 31, 2022
Decrying violence, thuggery not racist
Former "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jennie Nguyen needed to hurt a lot of people. The people she hurt want to eradicate ageless expressions of moral authority binding families together and substitute peculiar symbols for racism, which grant them immediate popularity. The adulthood and dignity found as individuals has been traded away for a prestige lacking dreams to pursue and accomplishments to celebrate. Their frivolous, brittle, impoverished character then achieves self-actualization through moral exhibitionism and militant self-absorption. Published January 31, 2022
Stop the illegal infiltration
More than 2.6 million illegals have invaded our southern border since the Biden regime seized power a year ago. Most of these illegal migrants have not been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, nor have they had their criminal or terrorist backgrounds checked. Published January 30, 2022
Taxpayer money used to bring in illegals
Once again, we have a federal agency receiving authorization from the White House to participate in the crime of transporting illegal immigrants to multiple U.S. cities ("DHS encountered a record 2 million illegal immigrants on southern border in 2021," Web, Jan. 24). This makes us no different from the "coyotes" getting these people to the border. Published January 30, 2022
Biden seeks wrong qualifications in pick
It appears that the most important qualifications for the next Supreme Court justice are gender, race and political affiliation ("Biden ready for rare racial justice win with Supreme Court pick," Web, Jan. 27). In my opinion there are only two issues that should be considered. Published January 30, 2022
Don’t allow totalitarian rule
"Biden's unmanned killer drone strikes continue abroad" (Web, Jan. 26) reminds us that in 1776, with pens and muskets, private-sector Founders and patriots created government to secure each individual's unalienable rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Published January 27, 2022
China is watching
In the largest sortie of the new year, China flew 39 warplanes toward Taiwan on Jan 24. In the meantime, Vladimir Putin is gathering troops on the Ukraine border for a possible invasion. It's not hard to imagine a scenario whereby a misunderstood signal or action could lead to a deadly incident in the Taiwan Strait. American policy makers ought to understand that these two events can't be viewed in isolation. Published January 27, 2022
