Opinion Forum

Holder’s ‘In the Dark’ Criticism of Immigration Law

May 19th, 2010

By Dan Miller On May 13, Attorney General Eric Holder, who had been critical of the new Arizona immigration law, testified that he had based his comments on newspaper and television accounts but had not read the by then more than two-week-old statute: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who has been critical of Arizona’s new […]

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Tags: Arizona, constitutional, Holder, illegal immigration, legislation, racial profiling
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Implementation Timeline

April 7th, 2010

By Tom Carter The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has produced a handy implementation timeline for health care reform. The first few years are devoted mostly to new taxes and other ways to raise money. Among those other ways are taxes and fees on businesses that will be passed on to consumers, which in reality is […]

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Tags: health care, implementation, legislation, reform, timeline
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Redundant Idiocy

March 22nd, 2010

by Jane Thomas My husband prefers to go fishing rather than listen to my Sunday morning TV programs dealing with political activities. His special pet peeve is Washington Journal when general public calls are taken, calls which he deems range from incredibly ignorant to purposefully stupid statements. Yesterday, I spent the entire day watching the […]

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Tags: democracy, Democrat, health care, House, legislation, republic, Republican
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Health Care Fatigue

March 21st, 2010

By Tom Carter I’m tired of the health care debate. It’s been going on for a year, and it’s become so complex and so partisan that even many of the politicians who will vote for health care reform today don’t understand it well. We’ll know in a few hours whether we have a new law […]

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Tags: Congress, constitutional, health care, House, legislation, Senate
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The Fog of Controversy

March 10th, 2010

By Tom Carter Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, on health care reform legislation: We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it — away from the fog of the controversy. Maybe the “fog” she’s talking about is caused by the fact that she and her colleagues have […]

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Tags: bill, controversy, fog, health care, legislation, Pelosi
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