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Is Biden’s Energy Agenda Suicide or Murder?

The Biden administration is preventing the development of multitrillion-dollar domestic resources. There are differing views on this but look at the difference between the Trump economy and the Obama economy.

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Sucktion 230

Sucktion 230 … Accountability for Thee But Not for Me

Sucktion 230 is all about accountability for thee but not for me. It is free speech battle… sorta. It’s not a battle for Leftist speech. It’s only a battle for conservative speech.  There is actually no movement afoot to restrict the speech of Leftists. But, the President’s tweets almost always receive a flag or fact-check. … Read more

Are Leftists Friends of the Little Guy?

Are Leftists Friends of the Little Guy?

Are Leftists: friends of the little guy? That is the cloak they cover themselves with. But are they really friends of the average American? They insist on being judged the promises they make and the intentions they aspire to. Leftists never want to be held accountable to their actual results. The cloak they wrap themselves … Read more

Politician’s Intentions

The letter below by Tony Boutin makes some excellent points about government actions and education in particular.  It appeared in the June 22, 2012, Laconia Daily Sun, http://issuu.com/dailysun/docs/lds6-22-12

While I agree with the author that politicians claim good intentions for all government actions driven by their policies, some politicians never seem to learn that the consequences of their policies rarely achieve their promised intentions and often provide bad results.  Thus, one has to wonder whether the claimed good intentions actually are the reasons for those policies.  Or, is the purpose of those policies something else such as political power driven by the growth of government and government union political  contributions (mostly to democrats), or the ease of getting votes by promising free stuff or benevolent sounding programs to voters who are ignorant of past failures?       Don

To the editor,

Education letters to The Daily Sun
have become popular since Kent Warner’s
offer of $50 for a catchy slogan.
I want to thank Kent for turning the
spotlight to it. Obama will surely be
trying to BUY professors, students and
their parents by promising increased
helicopter-style spending despite the
fact we are 17-trillion dollars in debt
and we recently got slapped in the
head with a credit downgrade.

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