Opinion Forum

For the Greater Good

April 2nd, 2010

By Larry Ennis My mother and I share the dubious distinction of both being senior citizens, her at 90 and me at 70. Both of us receive Social Security and Medicare. We are both concerned about what our status will be under the new health care law. As more information emerges it’s beginning to appear […]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: costs, health care, Law, Medicare, seniors, Social Security
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Crisis in the Church

March 28th, 2010

By Tom Carter One doesn’t have to be anti-Roman to view with dismay the current crisis in the Catholic Church — decades of sexual abuse of children and adolescents by Catholic priests. The Church has consistently shielded these priests from law enforcement, failed to discipline them in meaningful ways, and often reassigned them to other […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Benedict XVI, Catholic, Church, criminal, Law, Pope, sexual abuse
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Multiculturalism in Action

February 22nd, 2010

By Brianna Aubin “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Of course, that was said back in the good old days, when people were simply oblivious to evil. Today I’m not sure that even Edmund Burke would quite understand the idea of a culture that, through the […]

Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: culture, death penalty, justice, Law, multiculturalism, Muslim
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Justice for Terrorists

January 9th, 2010

By Tom Carter The Obama Administration’s decision to try some terrorists in federal court as common criminals is controversial. This policy has been applied to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen apprehended in the United States, as well as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others, non-U.S. citizens captured in foreign countries. Other terrorists have also been tried, […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Constitution, enemy combatant, Law, terrorism, terrorist, trial
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Thou Shall Not Govern

November 12th, 2009

By Harvey Grund When I ran across a recent article at Air America online titled Abortion Restrictions In House Bill Show Power Of Organized Religion In Politics, I broke into a sweat! (Well, not literally.) However, how could it be that I, a self-professed proponent of conservatism, could agree with anything that the “wacko libs” […]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: abortion, conservative, health care, Law, liberal, religion
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