The writer Robert Heinlein once said: “Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
So it is where we find ourselves under single party rule?
No difference between Republicans or Democrats. I think I can mark the official slide into serfdom after the repudiation of Ron Paul.
I guess being a serf isn’t so bad. Many Medieval serfs had good life under their aristocratic masters. But if you don’t like that and wonder what to do remember that Article V Constitutional Convention I once mentioned?
Silly, huh? Except that states are already asserting themselves. Thank you, Gov. Corbett of Pennsylvania, for stalling on the health care exchanges, the key component, without which there can be no Obamacare.
Pennsylvania joins 21 other states, perhaps more now, in refusing to start the exchanges.
Now to be sure, the Department of Health and Human Services can send in federal employees to do what the states won’t.
Good luck with that, we’re broke and even Conceder of the House Boehner would have a time selling the employment of tens of thousands of new federal workers.
So I pose this thought: If the states can nullify Obamacare what else can they do? Term limits? Neutering the Supreme Court? Shut down the IRS? Those are a few fine ideas.
It isn’t pie in the sky, because the states are already doing it.
Let’s help them out, because I’d like nothing better than to stick it to those trying to control others for the greater good. I guess it is the surly curmudgeon in me.
James Parsons, former resident
Carlisle, Pa.
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Controlling others for the common good is not good
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Stop buying licenses; let them find the money somewhere else
A few months ago, I received two cards from the National Rifle Association. These were dealing with a legislative alert.
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Strength of gun laws is not reflected in grisly statistics
According to the FBI’s uniform crime reports, California had the highest number of gun murders in 2011 with 1,220, which makes up 68 percent of all murders in the state that year and equates to 3.25 murders per 100,000 people.
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‘Forgotten warrior’ not forgotten
The Korean War is often called “The Forgotten War.” My generation remembers the Battle for LZ X-Ray at Ia Drang, The Tet Offensive, and Khe Sahn of the Vietnam War.
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Organization needed to help utilize the Potomac River
I am a committee remember on the Tamiami Trail Scenic Highway which stretches from Palmetto to Venice, Fla.
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Reducing meat consumption can help ease climate change
A review of 12,000 papers on climate change, in the May 15 issue of “Environmental Research Letters,” found that 97 percent of scientists attribute climate change to human activities.
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Maryland has stopped being “The Free State”
I am a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and, last but not least, the National Rifle Association. I am a yearly member of the American Legion.
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Save the Bridge Program
Please do not close the Frostburg United Methodist Church Bridge Program. The community and many families need this program. Let me enlighten you about a few things.
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Town of Westernport needs a police force and a curfew
Since the consolidation of Bruce and Valley high schools the town of Westernport rapidly deteriorated from what was once a quite respectable community to a community in a decline in residents, and along with that came a collapse in local government due to lack of knowledge and bad decisions that set the town of Westernport back 60 years.
One bad decision was to give up their police force, and with no constant visual law enforcement it has created an open range for drug dealerss, addicts, thieves, drunks and speeding vehicles that choose to ignore our city laws and speed limits and have totally disregard for the safety of the citizens who are on the streets, especially the children who are like deer, you don’t see them until their in front of you. -
Financial gutting will damage school system
I am writing in response to the Allegany County Commissioners’ efforts to cut local education spending to the lowest possible level allowed under state law.
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Cemetery organization plans events to mark Memorial Day
This upcoming Memorial Day marks the 30th anniversary of the Cumberland Historic Cemetery Organization (CHCO).
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