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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘No Iran deal’ better than bad deal
What is the underlying, driving purpose for us to invest resources and political capital in this deal? Without any question the U.S. paradigm is an Iran with a delayed nuclear weapon. Published April 9, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Religious freedom in choosing clients
A hypothetical: A group of nudists approaches three different photographers seeking an estimate to photograph a nudist event at a private venue. Published April 9, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Homosexuality a choice, not basis for civil rights
Civil rights in our nation are provided to citizens on the basis of who they are, not what they do. The fact of being a banker, farmer, priest, plumber, senator, president or any other modern-society job grants no one any civil rights. But those same individuals do have civil rights on the basis of their race, color, religion, sex, age, handicap or national origin. And all of these are components of who these citizens are, not what they do. Published April 9, 2015
EDITORIAL: Honor at Fort Hood
There's a difference, you might say, between a hero and a zero, and President Obama has blurred that difference in Washington. But the Bard was right, truth will out, and so was Abraham Lincoln, you can't fool all the people all the time, not even at the White House. Several heroes are about to get their just rewards. Published April 9, 2015
EDITORIAL: ISIS takes over Syrian refugee camp, no one comes to rescue
The barbarians of ISIS no longer have the ability to surprise anyone. They have beheaded innocents, set a captive afire in a cage, taught children how to shoot to kill at point-blank range, and murdered Christians only because they worship the Christ. The West is outraged, both for the brutality and by its frustration for not doing much about it. Published April 8, 2015
EDITORIAL: Rand Paul makes presidential bid official
If diversity is the secret of winning politics, the Republicans are running the most ambitious cafeteria in town, featuring the favorite dishes of several freshman senators fired by both conviction and ambition. If a hungry customer doesn't see what he wants, there's probably something else coming from the kitchen. Published April 8, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No money for expanded government benefits
It is with incredulity that I greet the plan of many congressional Democrats to not attempt to make the Social Security system sustainable for the future, while increasing benefits. Published April 8, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: On Iran, no one to trust
President Obama appears to be on the road again, electronically speaking, hyping the yet-to-be-agreed-upon nuclear deal with Iran. He is pitching a scenario that is totally opposite from the one Iran is relating. Both cannot be right. Published April 8, 2015
EDITORIAL: Jews consider Republican Party
That pop and crackle in the air is the sound of strains on a romance, like the noise of a cooling wood stove. The Jewish love affair with the Democratic Party has not gone bust by any means but it's beginning to frazzle at the edges, as unrequited love inevitably does. The Democratic left, which now dominates the party, does not like Israel very much. Published April 7, 2015
Beatrice Stevenson Patillo, former DCRA worker, dies at 71
Beatrice Stevenson Patillo, a former employee of the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, died March 30, 2015, at her home in North Carolina. She was 71. Published April 7, 2015
EDITORIAL: Scooter Libby witness accuses Justice prosecutors of steering testimony
Prosecutors, like cops, usually deal with people who aren't very nice. Prosecutors at every level rarely see the occasional bursts of human kindness that lead the rest of us to see the good among the bad. Unfortunately, some prosecutors, blind to the good among the bad, conclude that evildoers don't deserve a break, that the important thing is to get evildoers behind bars, so anything goes. If no actual evildoers are available, make one up. Published April 7, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama Iran strategy clear failure
Iran sanctions work, and if necessary they and a show worldwide of U.S. military and economic strength must be increased. The liberal-left, anti-war withdrawal strategy of President Barack Obama and the Democrats has not and will not stop the Iran ballistic-missile and nuclear-warhead program. It does not stop Iran from taking over the Middle East, gobbling up Iraq and Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. It does not stop Iran from endangering Israel or the Arab states, nor does it halt Russian expansion. Published April 7, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama selling out our allies for nothing
Things are not boding well for our current and former allies, particularly those of Christian faith, in light of questionable decisions by the Obama administration. Published April 7, 2015
EDITORIAL: California drought
California excess is the stuff of the tabloids, often entertainment for all, but the drought is not funny. Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered mandatory water restrictions for the first time, extending them far beyond the manicured lawns of Brentwood, the vineyards of Sonoma and the Napa Valley and the scenic coastline of picture postcards. When the going gets tough, the tough will have to turn off the taps. It's going to hurt. Published April 6, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s Middle East disaster
President Obama said his Iran nuclear deal is good, which is what he says about everything he has done ("Obama takes victory lap on 'historic' nuclear deal with Iran," Web, April 2). Were Obamacare and Mr. Obama's energy, economic, diplomatic, military and immigration actions and policies (or the framework for the deal with Iran) good or really bad? The latter has to be the answer. Climate change is not our biggest threat for the next century; the biggest threat lies in our not confronting Islamic terrorists who continue to slaughter, torture and subjugate Christians, Jews and Muslims. Published April 6, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama desperate for Iran deal
In the late 1950s there was a slogan that reminds me of what is taking place between Iran and the Obama administration: "Better red than dead." It was coined as the United States was put on its heels by the Russians in talks to reduce nuclear weapons. We were reducing testing while Russia continued to test and develop more nuclear weapons. Published April 6, 2015
EDITORIAL: Obama should worry about Vladimir Putin’s legacy
Words enough to fill an unabridged dictionary went into the tentative "framework" that President Obama and the Western powers reached with Iran to address Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. All those words could be distilled in John Lennon's naive refrain: "All we are saying is give peace a chance." While Barack Obama was preoccupied with erecting his "framework," Vladimir Putin was busy, too, reminding his European neighbors that Mao Zedong's favorite and not-so-nave refrain still applies: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Published April 6, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Africa terrorism another dark turn for continent
Africa is known as "the dark continent." Lately, it has sure earned its nickname. The recent attack by the extremist group al-Shabab on a Kenyan university that killed 147, its attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi that killed 67 people and the constant attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria have killed thousands and resulted in hundreds of schoolchildren being kidnapped. All of this introduced another dark chapter into African history. Published April 5, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s Iran legacy on long list of failures
As we witnessed President Obama desperately flailing for some kind of an agreement with the Iranians, we were reminded once again of the prime motivating force common to all of Mr. Obama's machinations: an anxiousness to construct some kind of notable legacy at the eleventh hour of his tenure. Published April 5, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Leftists attack Christians with gay hypocrisy
In ancient Rome, rabid emperors gleefully threw Christians to hungry lions in the arena. In modern America, mad-dog leftists savagely throw Christians to their sycophantic Democratic Party media darlings fraudulently masquerading as an objective press. Published April 5, 2015
