Opinion
It’s not citizens who are out of touch
If you listen to Democratic leaders such as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Howard Dean, you are told that the millions of Americans we see and read about who are protesting the proposed healthcare plan are “out of touch with reality” and “unpatriotic.”
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‘Green' cars can create different foreign dependency
For years, without success, efforts have been under way to try and create a national energy policy so as to relieve our nation of its dependence on foreign oil.
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Each Saturday, L’Observateur will recognize individuals and businesses in the River Parishes who have gone “above and beyond” in their efforts to make this a better place to live, work, play and raise a family.
Columnists
If NRDC’s claims of starving polar bears were true, where are pictures?
Environmentalists and the media have successfully bamboozled half the populace and every school child in America into believing large numbers of polar bears are starving and drowning in the Arctic because of global warming.
Obituaries offering insight into lives of departed
I read obituaries, not just those appearing in this newspaper, but from across the country. It is a habit I got into years ago when my Daddy would start his day by driving into town to pick up the Memphis Commercial Appeal and the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. Daddy was one of those cover-to-cover readers, but he always took time to comment on the obituaries.
Muslim principal persecutes Christians in Dearborn, Mich.
When Minister Trey Hancock baptized a teenage friend of his son, he had little reason to believe he was unleashing a jihad of bigotry. The teenager had attended his church for over two years, but when the teenager entered high school the baptism would set into motion the persecution of a string of Christians. Did these Christians live in Indonesia, Iran or Saudi Arabia? No, they live in Dearborn, Mich.
Un-American? Sorry, Ms. Pelosi, protests are as American as apple pie
Un-American, disruptive, distorters of truth, manufactured outrage, Astroturf, hired guns, and Nazis are all terms used by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and their liberal allies to disparage those who are speaking out at healthcare town hall meetings.
Government-run health care? No, thanks -- how about real reform?
I can see it now ... the commercial features a screaming Howard “Yeaaahhh” Dean saying, “Now, coming to a medical clinic near you, health care from the same people who brought you Cash for Clunkers and the U. S. Postal Service.
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