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Op Ed: U.S. A Bankrupt Nation,
War Wastes Threaten 21st Century

"Billions for Bullets and Blood OR Billions NOW for Desperate Needs"

(BEND, Ore.) - Choice is always the most painful necessity in any democracy. That essential action is often distorted, even perverted, by overly-strong special-interest demands and the problems they always create.

Op Ed: Impeachment Essential NOW
For Congress to Defend
Constitutional Demands

Constitutional abuses by the Bush administration thoroughly demonstrate the need to consider impeachment.

(BEND, Ore. ) - The time has come, once again since the Nixon debacle and the Clinton comedy, for Congress to tighten its surveillance, set up secure hearings to explore explanation for recent and current events, and put into operation the Constitutional process provided by the Founders, if facts prove the need.

Ron Paul Stands Out Among Republicans as a Man of Change

Ron Paul is one of the few GOP contenders willing to challenge the status quo.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Advocates for Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul say they are holding fast to a candidate who offers more sweeping change for a nation than any of his fellow GOP running mates.

At this time, there are 2 Democratic and 4 Republican presidential candidates remaining in the race. Of the 6, only Ron Paul stands for American ideals and has the record to prove it. One Ron Paul supporter in Salem, Terry Hamel, says it is important to note that the other Republicans voted to fund the war against Iraq - a nation that has no army, navy or air force, and that Iraq never threatened us.

Op Ed: `Supply-Side` Failures
Forcing International
Economic Remediation

U.S. 'Stimulus' Falls Short, Avoids Real Issues & Solutions; 'Next-Steps' Demanded for Consideration Suggested.

(BEND, Ore.) - The economic consequences of longtime 'supply-side' failures to control finance-industry operations, corruption and distorted economic policies have finally come home to roost.

Op Ed: WHY Less Is More
Always Must Mean
MORE Is LESS For Us

“Supply-Side” Theory Manipulates Realities, Covers Greed

(BEND, Ore.) - Today we face economic consequences that are being felt worldwide, as the destructive impacts on the U.S. economy bring on similar destruction in markets around the world.

History will show that we have only ourselves to blame for these truly historic consequences, for our own neglect in allowing elected leadership to foist off on us this truly destructive economic theory.

Op-Ed: Education Funding,
Effective Local Control,
Stymied By Neocon Design
Corporate Purpose

Society has been overwhelmed by propaganda and malign intent by a group determined to delude and manipulate citizen understandings for their own political purposes. It is time for change.

(BEND, Ore.) - Local control of our schools, from grade one through Grad level, has been a basic American principle ever since Colonial days. Our founders placed control of education within the domain of every state for good reasons.

In general, "local control" has provided the close supervision and honored the preferences of those paying-the-bill through school funding via property taxes set by each state by its own voters.

Op Ed: Wasting Wars Imposed
Huge Delays, Heavy Defaults
On US Education System

Reagan Era Attack On Middle Class Multiplies Damage to System.

(BEND, Ore.) - In a democracy that is far truer than when a dictator or other despot dominates not only the day-to-day record, but also the decisions and their consequences, historians insist that journalists write their special story in full detail, as soon as and as fast as it happens. This, as we live the events and suffer the consequences of our choices in “leadership” alongside our fellow Americans.

Democracy is definitely a “do-it-yourself” big deal, if it is to work at all, much less as it could --and should!!

Op Ed: `By-Line` Reflects
Responsibility and Full Accountability

Messengers shape the message, but readers must know the source for any credibility.

(BEND, Ore.) - You’ve never seen a major story in any daily newspaper with the by-line of "Anonymous".

You never will: That 'by-line' means precisely what it states, identifying WHO wrote what you are to read. It is journalism’s ethical way of identifying the writer(s) to reassure readers of responsible credibility and fully accountability.

Op-Ed: Corporate Profit Drive Redesigned to Protect Stakeholder Interests

Business power can be redirected to reinforce original intentions.

(BEND, Ore.) - Corporations today hold the key to further progressive and potent development of world resources to reinforce and strengthen progress around this diminishing globe which is our mutual home.

There is no longer conceivable doubt that the corporate combination of effective management with rapid access to essential asset-strength, when required, is the 21st Century pattern for any possible progress.

Oregon Courts Have No Right to Force Circumcision

What would the Oregon Supreme Court say to any adult who wanted to cut out any child's healthy eyes, inner ears, or tongue?

(PANACEA, Florida) - I was extremely distressed to read a quote in a recent AP article by William McCall attributed to Oregon Supreme Court Justice W. Michael Gillette. It says he asked in a hearing, concerning the partial genital amputation desired by a boy's father for his twelve-year-old son, "what would happen if the noncustodial parent of a child objected to allowing participation in a risky sport, such as football", and then that he gave his own preposterous answer:

"'The answer to that is that's preposterous,' Gillette said. 'In fact more people get hurt playing football than from having a circumcision - a lot more, and a lot more seriously.'"