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This principle that President Reagan enumerated is one of the main themes of the growing Tea Party Movement spreading like wildfire throughout the U.S.A.!
Cartoon by William Warren as found on WarrenToons.com 7/21/09
The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch runs a regular feature in its newspaper identifying an important issue to the local community and asking the vote of the readers on that issue along with comments. Occasionally I will respond and comment on the issue raised, as I did to yesterday’s topic.
The Hot Issue:
Do you think the economy can recover without health-care reform?
_X_ Yes
___ No
My Response:
The following is an unabridged version of my response to the question above.
The economy stands a much better chance of recovery if the current Congress and the current occupier of the White House will not implement ObamaCare, the nationalization of our health care system.
Reform IS necessary. Let’s start with putting a cap on Malpractice claims. Let’s allow the purchase of insurance across state lines. Let’s offer tax credits for Health Care Premiums for both employees and businesses. Let’s reward and encourage preventive medicine. Let’s allow the insurance companies to offer an array of policy options instead of mandating certain benefits that may not be needed. Let’s penalize those who abuse themselves through drugs, alcohol, food, promiscuous sexual behavior, etc. Why should society pay for immoral and unhealthy behavior?
I liken this to the current cable TV offerings. I will not subscribe to any cable or satellite TV option until they allow me to select only the channels I want. I do not want to support the trash that you get when you subscribe to any of their current offerings.
States mandate certain insurance coverage this should be up to the market place to determine. Get government out of health care. Medicare should be privatized.
The sprawling Cleveland Clinic reclaiming much of Cleveland's ghetto. The President had stopped here sometime between 12:00 and 1:00 PM then was driven to a local suburban high school where he participated in a town hall meeting.
Lee Road and Aldersyde. This is the intersection where the President's motorcade turned. People without tickets to the Town Hall Event where not permitted to walk down this street (Aldersyde)t.
Black & White: A Crucial Conversation: 
A civil conversation between citizens!
. Media Coverage of Protesters:
WOIO TV, Channel 19 See news coverage of protesters click here
Cartoon by Lisa Benson as found at Townhall.com 7/21/09
Cartoon by Steve Breen as found on Townhall.com 7/23/09
Cartoon by Steve Breen as found on Townhall.com 7/23/09
“Joe Biden – Last week he actually said that America must spend a lot more money in order to AVOID going bankrupt.-
“Biden also said the best way to stay dry is to take a swim, and eating a dozen Big Macs in one sitting is the best way to lose weight.”
- - NewsBusted, Episode 7/21/09
Seen on US Hwy 15-501 at Lamm's Grove intersection near Durham, N.C.
Not a God-given right
To the writer of "Era of not trusting gays over" (letter, July 6): I would say that while he is free to voice his opinion, his argument is invalid.
Homosexuals are not forbidden from drinking from the same water fountains as others, or segregated from restaurants and schools, or denied the right to vote. Therefore, homosexuality cannot be viewed as a civil rights issue.
Homosexuals claim their rights are hindered because they cannot serve openly in the military. I say strongly that military service is not a God-given, inalienable right. It is a privilege, one that those who volunteer for it hold dear. It is an honorable profession with a proud history.
Like [in] nearly all institutions, there are requirements to join and remain within it. If one does not meet those requirements, or violates the established rules and regulations, then that person can be deemed unfit to be part of the organization.
Additionally, to suggest that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. included gay rights in his movement for equality is outrageous. He was a Christian man of great faith, and I find it impossible to believe that he did not view homosexuality as morally repugnant.
Homosexuality is a chosen behavior. King hoped that people everywhere would judge each other not by skin color, but by their character. The writer contradicts himself when applying it to gays because homosexuality is part of one’s character. Therefore, I judge it to be immoral and unacceptable behavior, and will raise my children to view it the same.
The military is among the few institutions remaining that promotes and stands for morality and good order, and I sincerely hope that elected officials and lawmakers everywhere and at all levels will keep it that way, instead of catering to the whims of a mere few for the sake of votes.
Capt. Lynn B. Gatrell
Camp Liberty, Iraq
It’s liberal racism. And liberal racism is multiculturalism, pluralism, identity politics, moral relativism, a profound hostility to American exceptionalism, and the most cynical kind of demagoguery for partisan political benefit all rolled into one incredibly self righteous package.
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