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One of our strengths as a nation is the right of dissent–but surely the Bill of Rights never was intended to protect those who would contemptuously burn or desecrate the American Flag. Faith in the Supreme Court to interpret the right of this country to protect its sacred symbols was bolstered by the high court’s… Continue reading No ‘Right’ to Desecrute Flag

A good case for future statehood for Puerto Rico was made in a letter by Rep. Paul Simon. D-Ill. to his constituents. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth and that status means “second class citizenship” just as it formerly did for Hawaii andAlaska. said Simon. “The day will come,” he asserted. “when Puerto Rico will either… Continue reading Should Puerto Rico Be c1 State?

It seems reasonable to suspect that somewhere, somebody has information that could help police track down the cyanide killer (or killers) responsible for the seven Tylenol capsule deaths in the Chicago area, Evidence indicates the psrpet;-Iafor “salted” s ore s e ves at a number of establishments wpth one or more lgottlies o con aminate… Continue reading We Must Find Poison Killer

Politics may be the name of the game with some congressional issues, but you’d think a subject as crucial as nuclear arms limitation should be handled on a basis of merit and objectivity with political implications held to a minimum, Perhaps both sides have gotten a bit “political” on the issue between President Reagan’s strategic… Continue reading ‘Freeze’ Too Serious for Politics

Several problems contribute to the slump in the American Steel Industry but the No. 1 culprit is “Illegal dumping” of imggrted steel at prices low production costs, made possible by subsidies by some governments. That’s the consensus of House of Representatives Steel Caucus members who addressed the issue during a “special order” on domestic steel… Continue reading Steel Victim of lllegulities

As a voting citizen, have you ever experienced the “hollowness” that comes from knowing absolutely that your ballot in the presidential election does not matter? Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore. applied that term in describing the plight of hundreds of thousands of westerners who have “suffered a systematic devaluation of their votes” because of early television… Continue reading Western Voters Need Protection

As Republican Rep. Jack Kemp of New York told Congress recently, continued use and abuse of drugs and alcohol by young people is “more than an individual family crisis – it’s a national tragedy.” If the congressman’s information is correct, two-thirds of all American youngsters experiment with drugs and alcohol before they finish high school.… Continue reading One Town Against Drugs

The national election process, so vital in America’s democratic society, has shown signs of deterioration in the past few decades. It needs a shot in the arm maybe some overhauling. Voter turnout has declined in every presidential election since 1960. That year 62.8 percent went to the po s – not exactly impressive even then.… Continue reading Stop Voter Borticibotioun Decline

Because it’s usually the newspapers that lead the fight to preserve freedom of the press, some people tend to consider the First Amendment guarantee a special privilege for the news media. This is not so, of course. Freedom of the press means the right to a free flow of responsible information and opinions to the… Continue reading Freedom of Press Helps AII

When Congress adjourned without acting to lring down staggering federal deficits, it followed a road paved with the good intentiors but quest.ionable actions of many pre. vious Congresses which have i allowed the national debt to more than quadniple in the past 20 years. : The lawmakers temporarily pulled thermelves out of the current fiscal… Continue reading U5, peb; Rumpcmtly Out of Line