The First Amendment, religion and the latest uproar.
Some running for President and their supporters are squealing as loud as they can against a new requirement that enterprises offering health insurance to employees must include contraception as part of...
View ArticleTail Wagging
We all understand and can get a mental picture when someone says, “the dog is wagging its tail.” However, reversing the phrase to, “the tail is wagging the dog” takes on an expanded significance and...
View ArticleCutting The Military Budget Could Lead To War?
A news article June 13, 2012 revealed that General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense, testified before a congressional committee saying that...
View ArticleMitt
Heaven forbid if Mitt gets in. I too wish Obama wouldn’t have had to contend with the obstructionist conservatives who apparently joined in lock-step in order to accomplish what Mitch McConnell...
View ArticleThe Rule Book: Part 2
After the football analogy in my last post, “The Rule Book,” I touched on the pledge our newly elected U.S. Senator and House member will be making in a group with others newly elected to Washington...
View ArticleMitt – Champ or Chump?
Mitt Romney, the chosen Republican presidential candidate for 2012, has said many times in the last several weeks things that I would like to re-familiarize all of us with. He’s said that there are 23...
View ArticleObamacare will bankrupt America?
The idea that Obamacare (Universal Health Care) will bankrupt the United States has been trumpeted recklessly, disingenuously or without a sufficient understanding of the issues by a tragically large...
View ArticlePlaying With Fire While Ignoring The Real Problems
Many in America seem to have a general disregard for law and order. Most disturbing, however, is when our highest level public servants disregard fundamental provisions of the most important document...
View ArticleWant to win a quick and easy $25,000?
Who wouldn’t want to win a quick and easy $25,000? I certainly don’t know anyone. What if someone posed the following game to you with an entry fee of $100 but with the prize of $25,000 if you win the...
View ArticleChris Christie
The current speculation on national news about whether New Jersey Governor Chris Christie must have known about the traffic disruptions on the George Washington Bridge is absurd. The media and all...
View ArticleAs Good As They Get
Letters published on the Duluth News Tribune’s Opinion pages run the usual gambit from really relevant and well written to silly, poorly reasoned and based on one superstition or another or just plain...
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