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This month, I visited the southwest border for the seventh time in six years, and the conditions I saw in the Rio Grande Valley were the worst I have seen in any of my previous visits.
Despite what the Biden administration says, the administration’s policies, words, and actions have created the current public health, humanitarian, and security crisis at the border, and its refusal to take the crisis seriously is having a negative impact on our country. Since President Joe Biden took office, he has rolled back the Trump-era border policies and replaced them with absolutely nothing.
INDIANAPOLIS – There’s a reason that President Truman had a sign on his desk reading “The Buck Stops Here.” There’s a reason that a statue of Gov. Oliver P. Morton
Letters to the editor (Dec. 30, 2020)
As my generation fades into the sunset, it is time to recollect and record our legacy.
The “Great Depression” that ended with World War II, the atomic bomb and the birth of Social Security. President Harry Truman - “The Buck Stops Here.” “I Like Ike” buttons calling to elect the father of our interstate highway system. The summer lawns, sprayed with DDT, iron lungs and the fight to end polio. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, an environmental science book. The failure of savings and loan associations that had many bad loans, especially in real estate, and Watergate under Richard Nixon.
| Gadfly | December 17th, 2020
The Love Of Dogs And The Super Rich And Superpoor Of Teton County President Harry Truman is a favorite of mine. He read a lot of history books, threatened to punch a music columnist criticizing his daughter Margaret’s singing, kept a sign on his Oval Office desk: “The Buck Stops Here,” and insisted: “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” Almost all presidents had dogs. Research at Duke University on dog intelligence points out that over thousands of years dogs have acquired the skills that it pays to be able to recognize human beings who are ready to share meals with you. They welcome these beneficent people with wagging tails, smiles, nose pokes, and their version of hugs.