Like gnats, election predictions fill the political air. Politicos work to sway the voter, as sophisticated computer programs are devised to predict election outcomes.
TV commentators let slip over heard gossip and pundits place their bets.
At a time when everything is up for grabs, there is a doubt that will not go away. The Democrats could lose the presidency.
With a commitment to repeat the Bush years of inane economic plans, unbridled federal spending, and unrestricted corporate and financial activity, Romney and Ryan continually prove they are a danger to the positive social and economic strides of the last 70 years.
Sadly, they represent additional issues that directly affect the basic rights of all citizens. Under the guise of voter fraud, the Republicans brazenly attempt to rig state and local elections. Congress is stymied by mindless TParty inaction.
With Taliban-like strategy, Christian extremists work to impose religious tenets into State and Federal law. The Republican Platform endorses a small non-intrusive government until reproductive and women’s health issues are raised.
A secreted video tape shows that only a select few, certainly not “the 47 percent”, gain Romney’s confidence and can share his true “class warfare” vision. With political vengeance, Republican Sen. Darrel Issa publicly releases the Libyan papers. His irresponsible “gotcha politics” jeopardizes the lives of hundreds of agents/collaborators and compromises government intelligence in that region.
This is the new and improved version of a right wing America. It is the vestige of Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy that gave credence to such nonsense. A Georgian once said to me, “In Georgia, the period of calm since the civil war is known the interim peace.” I see what he meant as the interim gives way to this new southern strategy.
There is a singular reason to vote Democratic. Health care, federal spending, National debt, and women’s issues are all important concerns. Yet, nothing is more critical than defeating the rise of a corporate sponsored religious extremist John Birch agenda.
Robert Llewellyn
Cumberland
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Vote Democratic to defeat the GOP’s John Birch agenda
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Which buck is it, and where is it supposed to stop?
Barack Obama has made Nixon look like a choir boy! “Obama worse than Nixon” the supermarket tabloid’s headlines read recently.
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Theft of car’s bike rack sour note during Scouts’ visit here
On the evening of June 6, while our Boy Scout troop camped at the Paw Paw Tunnel (Route 51, Mile 156.2 of the C&O Canal) someone stole our bike rack.
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All ‘gave some,’ but these from our local area truly ‘gave all’
Between June 14 (Flag Day) and July 4 (Independence Day), I’m responding to several recent editorials and letters to the editor.
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Freedom isn’t exactly what he thinks it is
In the June 2 Times-News, R. Steele Selby (“Just how free are we?) defines freedom as “the capacity to do whatever he or she wants to do” and asserts that this definition is “most likely nearly universal.”
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What Maryland calls the Fair Share Act isn’t fair at all
The Fair Share Act was passed in 2009. This law allowed for service fees to be part of the collective bargaining process.
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We have lots to show for our education dollars
I would like to take this opportunity to respond to Judith Weller’s latest anti-education diatribe, “The money they already have isn’t being spent wisely,” (June 3).
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Western Md. Veterans continues its mission
My name is Dan Brashear, I am the founder and director of Western Maryland Veterans.
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Maybe the cyclists and casino workers should be armed
Again, unfortunately I have to remind Don Carns Jr. of Beans Cove, Pa., on his latest repeatedly inaccurate letter published June 10 in the Cumberland Times-News (“Township is nothing like either Pittsburgh or Philadelphia”).
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Let’s all kick in $1 to help save Frostburg’s Palace Theatre
As a former resident, I have many fond memories of the Palace Theatre (“Theater wall crumbles: Palace exterior collapses, unfit for entry: officials,” June 6 Times-News, Page 1A).
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Develop the waterway
Since the debate over removing the dam started about four years ago, I have been concerned about the effect the dam removal would have on the area’s welfare.
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