To the Editor: After months of watching television and reading newspapers about what is going on in America, I feel the need to express my opinion about a few things. I have lived in this country for more than 80 years and I have had many experiences. I have had to forgive, forget, overlook, overcome and I have had to change. Despite all the hardships I have both witnessed and endured, I love my country and I am proud to be an American. I with the best for everyone and I want to see America grow.
For every action Mr. Carmon's letter is right on point! What was the ATF thinking, selling guns to Mexico? We, the citizens of this country need to straighten out those in office, starting from the bottom up! We should clean up our messes before behaving in such arrogant ways. We are not doing the best we can, how can we speak badly of other governments when ours is behaving much the same! I love my country, but its government does need to be straightened out, quickly!
As President Obama and Congress struggle to tame the nation's runaway borrowing, a stream of checks, cash and even gold coins is pouring into a post office box in West Virginia where, for years, people who want to help pay down the national debt have been able to send gifts. I love my country. I don't want it in debt like this. I don't want it having a financial crisis," said Jane Olive, a retired teacher in Las Vegas who sent $100 to the PO box this month.
It may be one of the biggest law firms in Missouri, and his office may be primarily in Washington, but for former U.S. Rep Ike Skelton joining Husch Blackwell takes him back to his roots. I'm returning to my first love, my love of being a country lawyer," Skelton said Thursday.
The biggest issue on the voters' minds is crowded schools, [NANCY MCFARLANE] says. It reminds her of an early foray she made into city politics, as a PTA leader, when her part of Raleigh had no schools and the city council rezoned for a big apartment complex anyway. "I asked, Where will the kids go to school?," she recalls. "Their answer was, We don't care-that's the county's problem. [RODGER KOOPMAN]'s investments would include better bus service ("and rail, but that's a 20-year project"), finishing the greenways, protecting the Horseshoe Farm and Durant nature parks and making Dorothea Dix a great destination park. He'd rein in developers, raise impact fees and create a "framework" for smart, sustainable growth within which-he insists -builders would make more money, not less. He'd a...
..."I love my country and I love serving my community." One t...
Is it right to celebrate Osama bin Laden's death? I have spent enough time abroad to know I love my country, and I am extremely lucky and privileged to have been born here. I was in eighth grade when the attacks on 9/11 occurred, sitting in my algebra class when the lives of everyone (yes, everyone) in the world were changed forever.
The recitations are drawn from almost every kind of writing [Langston Hughes] did: moving poems such as "Harlem," and silly, almost Seussian verse such as "Madame and the Phone Bill"; the funny short story, "The Ways of White Folks," and the powerful essay, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain. [Paul Lincoln] began working with [Quanda Johnson] on this project right after September 11, 2001. He was struck by "the relationship of people to their country and patriotism, and what Langston struggled with." Everything Johnson had selected from Hughes' work "was so relevant in so many different ways to what we're still thinking about and trying to deal with," he reflects. "Even right now, with this spying and the Patriot Act. What does that mean to us? What did Langston say about this?"...
... becoming a man; sexual maturity and first love; conflict with white society; the blues; faith; an...
Years ago, in Holland, my Dutch friend Rolf took me to a souvenir shop virtually overflowing with wooden footwear. In my country," he explained, "when you love someone, you give them wooden shoes.
Comments made by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to members of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning at the Omni William Penn Hotel, Downtown: I remember the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 as if it were yesterday. I did not lose a friend or loved one, nor was I nearby the World Trade Center towers or Pentagon as people died. But like so many others working in government that day, I am an American and I love my country.
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