The Clinton and Obama reparations Abraham Carpenter Jr., a farmer in Grady, Ark., has more insight into human nature than the average sociologist. “Anytime you are going to throw money up in the air,” he told The New York Times, “you are going to have people acting crazy.”
Carpenter is quoted in an astonishing 5,000-word Times expose on the federal government’s wildly profligate program to compensate minority and women farmers for alleged discrimination. The government rigg...
Legalization of marijuana paying off The good things that should happen after marijuana is legalized are happening in Colorado. In November, voters in Colorado — and Washington state — legalized pot for recreational use. (Many states allow medical use of marijuana.)
What are the good things?
For starters, money, money, money for the state coffers. As of last week, lawmakers in Denver were still tussling over how heavily to tax marijuana sales. A leading plan centers on excis...
The danger of white America It was cool and rainy Sunday morning when the bomb ripped through the building. At 10:22, a group of children was just heading into the basement to hear a sermon at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. According to a Washington Post account at the time: Dozens of survivors, their faces dripping blood from the glass that flew out of the church’s stained glass windows, staggered around the building in a cloud of white dust raised ...
Gun opponents exploit grief to beat Second Amendment To the Editor,
The present gun debate has caused people to focus on the U.S. Constitution. It is important to take a close and long look at the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee to gun owners and people who obtain a gun or guns. The Second Amendment reads: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep bear arms shall not be infringed.”
People have the right to purchase and carry a ...
The real state of Robeson Co. As he should have, Noah Woods, chairman of the Robeson County Board of Commissioners, on Thursday brought plenty of lipstick to apply to his annual State of Robeson County Address.
To his credit, Woods spent a moment on some of the problems facing this county and looming challenges related to a new governing philosophy in Raleigh — one that bristles at government dependence — but his presentation was mostly upbeat.
Woods is an elected off...
Taking us to the ground for a point The air traffic controller furloughs are the White House tours of the sky.
From time immemorial, a government that doesn’t want to tighten its fiscal belt finds high-profile ways to inconvenience the public to try to turn it against spending cuts. In keeping with this so-called Washington Monument strategy, the White House canceled tours in the immediate aftermath of sequestration. In an escalation, the Federal Aviation Administration has f...
Times are a changing The political strategy of divisiveness is thriving in this country, and neither party has the stronger grip.
On the national level, criticisms from the right of twice-elected President Obama are that he is a communist, foreign born, a Muslim, or all three — charges that reveal much more about the accuser than the accused. The left counters by embracing class warfare, saying that Republicans are for the rich, and don’t care for the middle cl...
