Speak Out 7/26/13

Library info

I imagine the political pressure on you not to do so was tremendous. Therefore, I would like to thank the Cape Girardeau Public Library and, presumably, other area libraries for courageously making available to patrons accurate information about the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Gas prices

In response to the gas price comment on July 22: I know a lot of those who are defending Obama and the price of gas now are the same ones who blamed Bush. You Dems started that and now the shoe is on the other foot and all you can say is we are racist because we do not like Obama and that he has no control over the price of gas, but Bush had control because he was an oil man.

Common Core

Over the decades, I have seen education reforms come and go. After all was said and done, the reforms seemed to have little or no impact as about the only thing that correlated positively with student success was [with numerous exceptions, of course] the socio-economic status of the parents. However, I do have more than a slight bit of hope that the Common Core Standards will lead to state-by-state student improvement, though the basis for my optimism is based solely on the fact that Common Core is so adamantly opposed by the tea party.

Summer theater

Please start a summer theater at the River Campus. Musicals and comedies would be so popular here. Maybe Shakespeare, too. Plus, it would be great for the students and the community. I agree with the other Speak Out comments about this. A summer theater would be great for Cape Girardeau.

Bowen and Limbaugh

Will they take advantage of the chance? The entrance of Liz Cheney into the Wyoming Republican senatorial primary gives Dr. Wayne Bowen and author/columnist David Limbaugh a wonderful opportunity to elaborate on whether the best future foreign policy for America is Cheney's neoconservative interventionism or Republican Rand Paul's neo-isolationism.