THE shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and a host of others at a street-side forum she was conducting raises almost too many questions to enumerate about the supercharged atmosphere surrounding the nation's major political issues from health care to immigration to war. Foremost is the incivility that has permeated debate in which heated rhetoric has become the norm in a far broader sense than has been the case at anytime in American history thanks chiefly to a communications revolution that feeds all our insecurities and excites our animosities. Sarah Palin's electioneering tweet to supporters, "Don't Retreat. Instead Reload," and failed Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle's expressed solution of a "Second Amendment remedy" to major issues are cases in point. Even more demonstrat...
THERE are millions of sad stories in the collapse of the nation's housing market and the often-heartbreaking foreclosures that continue. But few are as disturbing as those involving America's fighting men and women who have been dispossessed at home. It isn't enough to face death and destruction, particularly those who are part time soldiers called to active duty from the reserves and National Guard units. Now adding to their worries is the threat of coming home to nothing despite a federal law that is designed to prevent that. But guess what? The legendary gnomes of the banking industry, it seems, don't pay much attention to the law, at least when it comes to the Civil Relief Act that states unequivocally that service members on active duty are spared many of the legal consequences of ...
Let me get this straight. Bank of America now wants to start charging me and millions of other customers for using our own money? That's the bottom line in a new policy the bank has announced that would result in a monthly fee for the privilege of swiping our debit cards at the grocery or pharmacy or gas station. The charge is expected to be $5, but when you start adding up the monthly tally for the bank it could amount to an astronomical amount. Even John Dillinger would have blushed at these guys.
WASHINGTON - Who is it that looks more and more like an unenlightened beacon in what should be an age of enlightenment? Well, it's the same guy who thinks evolution is just a gap- filled theory, that humans have no responsibility for global warming, that the word treason and the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve should be used in the same breath.
My mother couldn't stand to see a hungry child or one inadequately dressed for the weather. On occasion when she had need to drive me or one of my siblings to school because we had missed the bus, we would pass children obviously suffering from the afflictions of poverty. Oh my," she would say, her eyes welling up. She would immediately stop the car to ask the child's name if I didn't recognize him or her. With that information she would find some way to make sure they had a warm coat and other clothing and a basket of food. We certainly weren't wealthy but we were better off than many in those days when the aftershocks of the Depression were still being felt.
WASHINGTON - Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has entered the free-for- all for the Republican presidential nomination on a familiar theme, one that pits the sovereignty of the federal establishment against that of its separate parts. In other words, his message is distinctly anti-Washington and pro states' rights and he delivers it without reservation. It is difficult to conceive that he actually believes that in this day and age the national government should be treated as only a bit of paste that holds together the strongly independent 50 states. Using Washington as the chief target in a presidential campaign has been a common strategy for presidential candidates almost from the beginning of the Republic, especially when running against incumbents.
WASHINGTON - The endless chatter about the ills of the public school system is being matched in intensity by speculation over the value of a college education and whether it is increasingly less worth the money. The answer to the first part of the question is yes, according to the experts. A college degree still is considered a necessary passport to a better life no matter if guys like Bill Gates dropped out. But as to whether the amount being spent matches the expectations there is a vast difference of opinion. The truth is some degrees are just worth more than others over a lifetime although the costs may be the same and take years to pay off.
ACCORDING to House Republicans food-borne illness is so insignificant, the Food and Drug Administration needn't worry about it, or for that matter should the general public. In fact, Rep. Jack Kingston, until recently a Republican back bencher from Georgia who now presents himself as an expert on public health issues, says that the food supply is 99.99 percent perfectly safe. What a relief. Now we don't have to worry about the estimated 48 million of us who become ill each year because of the tainted morsels we wolf down nor, for that matter, the 28,000 who are hospitalized or the 3,000 who die from the experience. Those are figures from officials of the Center for Disease Control. But what the hell do they know? And after all when it comes to cutting the budget, we all have to make sac...
WANT to know perhaps the most puzzling question in American politics? It simply is, "Who has enough money in these perilous economic times to give substantial amounts to those running for office, especially the presidency? The partial answer to that at this point may be fewer than those who supported the 2008 campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain, but still a substantial number who are shelling out to a field of Republicans and to the White House incumbent. This, of course, doesn't count the congressional races.
Anyone boarding a plane these days has to be a little concerned about what is happening on the ground while they are in the sky - whether their pilot's request for instructions on landing or routing or traffic around them are being met by the sound of a snore. It's a legitimate concern in the wake of six or seven incidents in the last few weeks in which those responsible for the first line of air safety, the traffic controllers, literally have been found sleeping on the job. Who knows how many more cases of gross and potentially disastrous negligence have taken place without notice in a system that while it may not be entirely broken is certainly showing signs of disrepair.
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