He may have channeled the no-nonsense fighting spirit and know-how of Gen. George S. Patton. He might have been this generation’s Dwight D. Eisenhower — a military hero-turned president — if he’d had the personal ambition.
2013
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
VIEW FROM AWAY: Cancer drug shortages can be deadly to kids
Disgraceful. That’s the best description of the findings released recently that show unnecessary and damaging shortages of some cancer-treating drugs have led to relapses among some kids fighting cancer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and elsewhere.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
VIEW FROM AWAY: Sensible to send part of Mighty Mississippi west
For years, upriver and downriver interests have argued about use of Missouri River water. Now a third option looms that could confound the issue further: diversion of water to parched Western states by way of a pipeline.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
To prevent shootings gun laws need to be loosened
Ask yourself: If you were mentally unstable and wanted to cause harm, would you take your arsenal and shoot up a police convention or a school? Without a doubt, you would pick a school, because if you did so at the convention your efforts would be thwarted by multiple guns firing back at you.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
More guns no solution to the problem of violence
Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, is half-right. If every school in America had armed guards, it would be somewhat more difficult to launch the kind of massacre visited on Newtown, Conn.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Reisert column merely assails president’s speech
Professor Joseph Reisert begins his column about gun ownership by actually agreeing that President Barack Obama is right on at least one point.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Obama sets up US for more debt than ever
President Barack Obama can pat himself on the back; he has extended the G.W. Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans.
Posted inPolitics
Governor will swear in top state officers
Democrats replace Republicans as attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer and auditor.
Posted inPolitics
Fight looms over Hagel nomination for Defense
Republicans worried about Israel are critical of the former senator – ‘an in-your-face’ pick by Obama.