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Regulations strangle economy
With the economy in a hyperinflationary tailspin where economic activity slows at the same time the price of goods and services increase, one would think that government officials would get the idea that less regulation, not more, would be the order of...
Beware of job scams on Web
It's so easy to apply for a job over the Internet. It's even easier to be taken in by scam artists hiding behind your computer screen. Actually, they're standing in plain view without apology, without shame, wondering why, desperate soul that you are,...
Great things happening at local schools
To lighten my uneasiness about this commentary, here's a full disclosure. This column speaks directly about the school that bears my name. Except for that tag, I view it like any other Yuma County school. I have no influence in its happenings or...
Economic policy turns out hurtful
Whenever an action is taken to help a situation, one has to be careful that it does not actually worsen another situation. One has only to look at the current economic downturn and the higher prices being paid for things like gasoline and food...
Issue of taxation worthwhile topic for the candidates
Instead of all the mudslinging between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, wouldn’t it be refreshing to have them engage in some serious political discussion? Many American citizens might appreciate some in-depth exploration of the...
Restrictions increase power
Making people and drugs illegal promotes government power. Demanding that government officials investigate and institute government identification cards for individuals, and building walls to keep people out of the United States gives government...
Care specialists overwhelmed
There have been recent letters to the editor complaining about some aspect of medical care in Yuma. One gentleman could not get his wife into an orthopaedic surgeon for her wrist fracture within five days, and the another letter complained about the lack...
Increase in food prices spurs fear, growing hunger
Not long ago I saw a report on NBC from a roving correspondent who had managed to get into the island nation of Haiti despite entry restrictions on reporters by the government, which is trying to hide a terrible situation. Haiti, located in the Caribbean,...
Clinton's proposal for economic chief truly obscene idea
OK, so you think I am way over the top claiming that Hillary Clinton is a Stalinist. Well, then, what do you make of the fact that on March 27, in a speech she gave in North Carolina, she said as plainly and clearly as one can say such a thing that what...
Two candidates offer change
When the founders wrote the United States Constitution, they envisioned a society ruled by law as opposed to being ruled by individuals. Prior to the American founding, it was the monarch or dictator who ruled. Everyone in society lived at the luxury...
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