OpinionMarch 3, 2020
Speak Out 3/3/20
You say we don't have a gun problem. Seven people dead in Milwaukee today. Keep drinking your cool aid, but better start praying to God that he doesn't hold you responsible. I hold you responsible as these guns that has been put on the streets are made for killing and not hunting or sports shooting like we have had these past years...
Gun problem
You say we don't have a gun problem. Seven people dead in Milwaukee today. Keep drinking your cool aid, but better start praying to God that he doesn't hold you responsible. I hold you responsible as these guns that has been put on the streets are made for killing and not hunting or sports shooting like we have had these past years.
Loyalty to Trump
Loyalty to Trump is the only qualification necessary to be the Director of National Intelligence? The DNI oversees a $52.6 BILLION budget. Qualified people either don't want to work for this administration or refuse to swear absolute fealty. Sad days for the U.S.
Presson column
Lucas Presson's Smith/Trump opinion piece reads like he took it straight from a talking points memo from the Republican party. If you belong to the club, do they send you plug and fill articles so you don't need to strain your brain coming up with something original?
Immigration
My father was an immigrant to the U.S. Three of my sisters were foreign born, and I would estimate that at least a third of those with whom my family associated while I was growing up were foreign born. With this background, I thought I had a fairly good understanding of the mindset and objectives of those who leave the land of their birth to come to the United States of America. I am, however, baffled by the large number of Hispanic or Latinos now immigrating to this country, seemingly because of the crime and poverty in their homelands, who are advocating, supporting, and voting for the same social, political, and economic programs and agendas that brought about the crime and poverty in the countries of their birth from which they are now fleeing.
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Dem debate
Pass the popcorn! The Democratic presidential candidate chaos is the best show around. You've got a person who lied about their genetic heritage, a man married to a same-sex partner, and an admitted socialist. Wow!
Smith's boss
Does Rep Jason Smith consider Trump his boss? Rep Matt Gaetz was on The View and claimed that Trump wasn't his boss, but do any of the president's followers truly answer to the voters and taxpayers that they are supposed to represent? When did Congress cede its power to the President? As a group they seem to have given up their autonomy.
Immigration
Think of what the U.S. would look like today if the legal immigrants of the past were turned away because they were not wealthy enough. Bar food without Irish and German influence? Maybe we would all be thinner. But how many future doctors and entrepreneurs are we turning away?
McRaven quote
"As Americans, we should be frightened -- deeply afraid for the future of the nation. When good men and women can't speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security -- then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil. " -- Retired Navy Admiral William McRaven. Look it up.
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