Thursday cartoon extra #3
By Kirk Walters, Toledo (Ohio) Blade
Click below to view the #1 & #2 cartoons.
By Kirk Walters, Toledo (Ohio) Blade
Click below to view the #1 & #2 cartoons.
Friends: Here's an advance look at the newspaper's editorial for Friday. I'd be interested in reading your thoughts, if you have any. Thanks, dc.
A slim majority of S.C. senators are taking a drubbing this week because -- horrors! -- they wish to pass an immigration-reform law that regulators and prosecutors can actually enforce. The S.C. House and Gov. Mark Sanford seem more interested in passing a bill that "gets tough'' on employers who use foreign labor, with insufficient regard for whether the measure stands up in court.
The pressure on senators to "do something, fast," is intense. Some residents apparently want the heads of employers who hire illegals to be mounted on spikes along public roads. Sanford and the House leadership, meanwhile, are conducting an intense public-relations campaign that ridicules the Senate for refusing to pass an employer-crackdown bill that the House adopted last week.
Continue reading "Needed: An S.C. immigration bill that actually works" »
Ripped from the wires ... Cal Thomas takes issue with John McCain's recent declaration that humans are influencing climate change and must help fix the problem:
By CAL THOMAS
In an effort to win over those "moderates'' who believe that global warming is about to destroy the planet, Republican presidential candidate John McCain spoke Monday at a Portland, Ore., training facility for Vestas Wind Technology. He claimed, "The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington.''
There certainly is more "hot air'' on this and a lot of other subjects in Washington, but that isn't what he meant. The era of big government is so not over, as Bill Clinton claimed it was in 1996. It is just beginning and increasingly the political contests seem to be about who will manage its growth, not who will reduce its size, cost and reach.
Continue reading "Uh oh: McCain joins global warming cult" »
Ripped from the wires ... Normally, I would not go back to Froma Harrop so soon after posting her other piece, but when she's right, she's right. Here, she discusses the positive aspects of our economic slowdown.
By FROMA HARROP
The morning after overdoing it, some of us take pleasure in the cleansing process. The carrot juice goes down smoothly, and a simple walk feels virtuous. One vows to exert more self-control and give yoga another try.
The current economic downturn creates its own kind of a hangover and also a potential learning experience. For many consumers, it has tolled closing time on too much borrowing, too much spending, too much sweet talk about real estate. The game is over. But while the dawn may seem cruel, it sheds light on certain truths that had been suppressed. Enrolling one's finances into a 12-step program is a healthy thing to do.
Continue reading "Our economic woes have their sweet side" »
Post comments below on any issue you want. The only limitations: the ground rules listed at the left and your own imagination. I'll reply when appropriate. Have fun. dc
(If you wish your comment to be considered for publication in the newspaper, copy it into an e-mail and send it to opinions@thesunnews.com. Please add your address and phone number to the e-mail so we can contact you for verification. The size limit for letters is 150 words.)
Today's editorial takes issue with the proposal by S.C. Sen. Luke Rankin and S.C. Rep. Alan Clemmons to transfet Horry County's airports to a state-run commission:
A question for S.C. Sen. Luke Rankin and S.C. Rep. Alan Clemmons, who this week filed identical bills to give control of the Myrtle Beach International Airport to an unelected entity called the Grand Strand Airport District: Why didn't you guys pitch this legislation at the beginning of this year's legislative session?
By waiting until now to pitch an alternative airport governance plan, Rankin, R-Myrtle Beach, and Clemmons, R-Myrtle Beach, virtually guarantee that nothing productive can happen. Horry County's other three senators were right this week to greet the proposal with the same enthusiasm they'd show a plate of undercooked fish.
Continue reading "MB airport authority bill comes months too late" »
Ripped from the wires ... Columnist Froma Harrop tells "Obamites" why bagging on the apparently defeated Hillary Clinton is not smart.
Bu FROMA HARROP
Many in the Obama camp, having outfoxed the apparently not-so-formidable Clinton machine, can't seem to get the hang of winning gracefully. They feel a need to drive a stake in Hillary Clinton's reputation, then dance. If they were smart, they'd heap praise on Clinton and let her finish out the race, however she chooses to do so.
That's sage advice, even though offered by Republican mastermind-turned-pundit Karl Rove. Treat Clinton shabbily, he says, and many of her supporters "will remember it by November.''
Continue reading "Rove offers Obama triumphalists some good advice" »
Post comments below on any issue you want. The only limitations: the ground rules listed at the left and your own imagination. I'll reply when appropriate. Have fun. dc
(If you wish your comment to be considered for publication in the newspaper, copy it into an e-mail and send it to opinions@thesunnews.com. Please add your address and phone number to the e-mail so we can contact you for verification. The size limit for letters is 150 words.)
Ripped from the wires ... In an editorial Tuesday, the Miami Herald called for a more generous GI Bill of Rights:
In 1940, during the Battle of Britain, Prime Minister Winston Churchill celebrated the daring crews of the Royal Air Force with stirring words: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'' Today, something similar could be said about the men and women wearing the uniform of the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan. Never have so few U.S. soldiers been asked to sacrifice so much while so little was asked of the rest of us.
Continue reading "Past time to repay our troops' courage, sacrifice" »
Post comments below on any issue you want. The only limitations: the ground rules listed at the left and your own imagination. I'll reply when appropriate. Have fun. dc
(If you wish your comment to be considered for publication in the newspaper, copy it into an e-mail and send it to opinions@thesunnews.com. Please add your address and phone number to the e-mail so we can contact you for verification. The size limit for letters is 150 words.)
Friends: I apologize for the absence of fresh material on Thursday. I have been called out of town to deal with an aging-parent issue. Regular posts will resume Wednesday with intermittent posts to continue between now and then. Thanks, dc
Ripped from the wires ... Contrarian columnist Froma Harrop explains why the Republican presidential nominee is angling to enjoy a Big Mac Value Meal at the Democrats' expense.
By FROMA HARROP
John McCain has used these weeks of Republican calm to dive into the Democratic lunch pail. This strategy clearly assumes a Barack Obama candidacy. If demographics are destiny -- as the political sages keep telling us -- Democratic demographics may offer some choice cuts to the presumed Republican nominee. By dumb luck, Republicans have chosen their one candidate who projects a moderate image, hasn't alienated Latinos and offers an appealing life story to boot.
The core problem for Democrats is that Obama's backers are reliable Democrats, whereas Hillary Clinton's are unreliable Democrats. Less than half of the Clinton voters in Indiana said they would support Obama in a general election, which is a very bad sign. Add these largely blue-collar and rural whites to some swinging independents and you have a potential Big Mac Value Meal for McCain.
Continue reading "McCain to gorge from Democrats' lunch pail?" »
Ripped from the wires ... Texas writer Rod Dreher discusses the disturbing implications for Americans of rising food prices.
By Rod Dreher
It's not every day that you see a Wall Street Journal columnist suggesting that Americans consider stockpiling food. But that's exactly what investment writer Brett Arends did recently, predicting that global food prices are about to take off into the stratosphere.
"Load up the pantry,'' top Wall Street investor Manu Daftary told the writer. "I think prices are going higher. People are too complacent. They think it isn't going to happen here.''
Continue reading "Do rising food prices signal harder times to come?" »
Post comments below on any issue you want. The only limitations: the ground rules listed at the left and your own imagination. I'll reply when appropriate. Have fun. dc
(If you wish your comment to be considered for publication in the newspaper, copy it into an e-mail and send it to opinions@thesunnews.com. Please add your address and phone number to the e-mail so we can contact you for verification. The size limit for letters is 150 words.)
Ripped from the wires ... What's wrong with sexing up a 15-year-old pop star? In an editorial last week, The Chicago Tribune answered: Plenty.
If you're a parent of a 12-year-old girl, you don't need to be told what was wrong with Miley Cyrus appearing in Vanity Fair wrapped in a satin bedsheet, shoulders and back bared. You already know that popular culture pressures kids to grow up fast, fast, fast. And now you have Exhibit A: A national magazine sexes up a 15-year-old girl and takes photos of her. With her parents' permission.
Miley, the idol of preteens and the star of Disney Channel's "Hannah Montana,'' has apologized for the photos. But she's the only one in this thing who has no culpability. She's 15, and had a lot of adults telling her this was all a great idea.
Continue reading "Innocent Hannah morphs into Vanity Fair vamp" »
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