EDITORIAL

Bipartisan misunderstanding

Many Americans have long been sustained, encouraged and upheld by a belief that the United States is No. 1 in significant areas - business development, commerce, industry, finance, education, the arts and sports. For some Americans this belief is so profound that the very nature of the U.S. is so closely identified with the No. 1 standard that it cannot exist without it. More »

OPINION

Now the real fight begins

President Barack Obama's State of the Union address was measured, moderate, and in the wake of the Tucson massacre, the paragon of civility. The speech was less of a presidential annual report card on the shape of the nation, and his administration, than a treatise on what the Obama administration will do to create the one thing that the administration has been roundly raked over the coals for: not saying and doing enough to create jobs, jobs and more jobs. More »

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Common-sense parole reform

Massachusetts' lawmakers decision to reform the parole process is at best laughable, at worst opportunistic. In 1988 the Willie Horton debacle reverberated nationally and probably decided the presidency. Lawmakers back then attacked the furlough program in Massachusetts and used Mr. Horton's horiffic crime as a springboard to further their political ambitions. More »

ROVING CAMERA

What is your reaction to U. S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz's statement that race played no part in the prosecution of Chuck Turner?

I think the prosecutor is in convenient denial and the sentence that Chuck Turner received was not only cruel and unusual punishment but judicial terrorism, i.e. scare other black leaders from standing up as Chuck did. More »