Commentary: Flunking on public education reform

SAN DIEGO — President Obama had been getting high marks in his first year in office for what seemed to be an insightful approach to education reform. Too bad he flunked the final.

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Cartoon by Dave Granlund

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American Opinion - On Obama’s federal spending freeze:

From The Associated Press

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Commentary: Charting our way back to the solvency of our country

WASHINGTON — In 2013, when President Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor, is counting his blessings, at the top of his list will be the name of his vice president: Paul Ryan. The former congressman from Wisconsin will have come to office with ideas for steering the federal government to solvency.

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American Opinion - On U.N. corruption:

From The Associated Press

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Cartoon by Ed Fischer

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Obama: The man who fell to earth

WASHINGTON — Chastened is not an adjective normally associated with Barack Obama. But that was the underlying theme of his State of the Union address: that a rocky first year in office had left Americans unsure about whether he can produce the soaring change he once promised.

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A lobe divided will not stand

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic Party’s brain. The seam separates that brain’s John Quincy Adams lobe from its Sigmund Freud lobe.

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Letter: What about the perpetrators?

I see the Wagars are still making front-page news. Why? This man was trying to protect his property. We don’t see or hear anything of the perpetrators who were “having fun.”

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Letter: The power of one vote

On Jan. 19 the people of Massachusetts went to the polls and overwhelmingly elected a new senator, a conservative who drives a 2005 pickup truck. This should be a lesson to all people in Civics 101 that the power of one vote does count.

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Commentary: A missed opportunity on profiling

SAN DIEGO — I, for one, would have liked to have seen President Obama condemn racial and ethnic profiling in his lengthy and otherwise far-reaching State of the Union address.

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Letter: Supporting free enterprise

I’d like to take this opportunity to respond to Warren Crackel’s letter to the editor that appeared in the Jan. 27 edition of the Tribune.

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Letter: Climate and the human factor

Mankind does have a part in global warming and climate change.

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Editorial: Spending limit is first step in deficit battle

While the Senate voted Thursday to authorize a new national spending limit, House Blue Dog Democrats successfully included a tough new “pay-as-you-go” budget item.

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Commentary: A ‘reform’ wisely struck down

WASHINGTON — Last week’s Supreme Court decision that substantially deregulates political speech has provoked an edifying torrent of hyperbole. Critics’ dismay reveals their conviction: Speech about the elections that determine the government’s composition is not a constitutional right but a mere privilege that exists at the sufferance of government.

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