Category: Letters to the Editor

I’m really starting to question the judiciary system and the people that make it up. These are people that make potentially life altering decisions while sitting in judgment of us. We are already seeing district judges making ruling affecting national issues, something that, IMO, is an overreach of their authority. There is talk of congressional action, but I believe the Supreme Court needs to be the one to make the ruling.

While there’s been much made of the tendency of these people to make these decisions based on their personal political slant, a couple of recent incidents have changed the paradigm in what I consider a dangerous…

Speaking as a long-time resident of the New Irving Park neighborhood, in a home on Willoughby Boulevard.  I’m writing to support Nicky Smith’s remarks about the Greensboro City Council and its highly capricious and short-sighted April 17th decision to rezone property.

Aside from district 3 representative, Zack Matheny, six other city council representatives displayed a callous disregard for the neighborhood.   The rezoning decision ignored the will of neighborhood residents and the city’s own land use guidelines…

Courts and prisons are overwhelmed and underfunded. Courts frequently agree to deport accused illegal aliens to save limited trial resources. The accused agrees in order to avoid significant jail time and, in many cases, a criminal record. This creates a huge crack to fall through.

Our borders are so porous that it’s easy to return. Depending on local reporting procedures, border agents and other jurisdictions often don’t know about these agreements. Since the trial stopped before reaching a verdict, they weren’t found guilty. Their records are essentially clean. A few years ago, an illegal alien in New York was repeatedly deported (repeatedly returned) for harassing an individual that he eventually murdered…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.

Right now, the great boogeyman making the rounds is the “T” word…tariffs. Based on 95% of news stories, blogs, talking heads and “expert economists” the American economy is on life support and the plug is very loose, due to tariffs.

Believe it or not, not everything in this country is under the threat of tariffs. If it is manufactured in this country, it is NOT subject to a tariff. That is not to say that there are items that cannot be manufactured here that have to be imported, and will be subject to those tariffs. But if people stop and do a little research, a little comparison shopping, they will find the damage can be minimized, not eliminated (yet) but minimized….