My high school science teacher constantly repeated one of his standards to live by: When it concerns people and facts, believe none of what you hear, none of what you read and only half of what you see.
In other words, seek the truth for yourself because truth is not subjective. When it comes to today’s politics, we would do well to heed his advice. Our present politicians are divisive and dishonest. When one of those people of any stripe tries to reduce the discourse to belittling their opponents’ character, they prove themselves dishonorable and guilty of the character flaws with which they impugn their opponents.
In all the recent issues either acted on or proposed including the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the stimulus, man-made global warming, health care — all have been or ultimately will be destructive and do more damage if we the people allow them to stand. My hope lies wholly in divine providence and “we the people” as defined in the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights. It is ultimately up to us to fix the messes we allowed those people to create.
We are in charge. If you doubt it, consider how badly they have reacted to people who disagree with them at the town hall meetings and the million-plus people who showed up in Washington, D.C., earlier this year.
They were reduced to the tactic of those who are afraid by calling names and impugning the character of the people. They truly believe they control the nation. We must disabuse them of that corrupted thinking through impeachment, petition for redress, referendum and at the ballot box.
No more professional politicians who have never held a real job, run a small business or walked the mile in another’s moccasins. No more rich lawyers or academics who look down their noses at us, believing they know what is best for us no matter what we think. This effort will require no less than what the Founders committed to the struggle for the republic: our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. Enough of over-educated idiots with no common sense and no real-life experience. If we are not totally committed to retaking the republic, we will have no one to blame but ourselves.
Ken Carter
Lockwood
Opinion
Voices: We are in charge
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Our View: Spying on us
Distrust of government secrecy has been elevated to an exceptional level with the disclosure the Justice Department covertly examined two months of Associated Press phone records to determine who leaked details to the AP about a foiled terrorist plot.
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Our View: Pass on the legacy
Forty hungry members of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry began gathering corn at the Rader farm near the village of Sherwood when they were ambushed by a guerrilla band of about 70 Southern sympathizers.
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Our View: Big Brother looms large
The federal government, working under the cloak of secrecy, has been having a heyday at the expense of all Americans.
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Our View: Disgraceful military assault
We want to make one thing clear: A sexual assault is not a sex scandal. Nor can the rise in sexual assaults in the military be justified in any way.
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Elliott Denniston, guest columnist: Right-to-work laws only hurt workers
Middle-class workers have been fighting an uphill battle for the past 30 years.
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Your View: Food drive efforts
Branch No. 366 of the National Association of Letter Carriers along with the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, the American Postal Workers Union and the U.S. Postal Service would like to thank all the area communities that participated in the 2013 Stamp Out Hunger food drive.
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Your View: More about tax credit
The Globe’s editorial in “Our View” (May 10) may have left readers with a few inaccurate impressions.
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Other Views: Sickening disparity
Don’t feel bad if you don’t understand the wide, sometimes huge, discrepancies in fees hospitals charge for the same procedure. Or if you don’t understand the arithmetical magic the hospitals use to arrive at those fees.
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Carol Stark: America in need of more 'momisms'
Several years ago, I attended a writing workshop where one of the sessions was called “Tell it to Mom.”
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Our View: Keep learning
Donna Maus, a biology teacher from St. Mary’s Colgan High School in Pittsburg, Kan., told a group of top students, their parents and their teachers something we think everyone needs to hear.
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