Barbara edwards

Recently, HBO offered “Confirmation,” the story of the hearing of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill. Somebody approaches Anita Hill to ask about her earlier experience working for Thomas. Miss Hill was now a professor at Oklahoma University. Although she was hesitant about appearing...

In her letter to the editor in the Oct. 16 edition of the West Central Tribune, Barbara Edwards accuses the Republicans (of course) of political dirty tricks in refusing to turn over the Benghazi transcripts to the Democrats. I have a different idea: I think they e-mailed the transcripts,...

At the beginning of his second term as president, Franklin Roosevelt was disgusted with the Supreme Court. In his attempts to bring the United States out of the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt, with a strong Democratic Congress, had passed several measures which the conservative...

“Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not...

Sensible gun regulations A little girl once said, “I don’t like to think about the things I don’t like to think about.” Apparently Americans don’t like to think about the Newtown murderer and that within less than five minutes he could break into the school, fire 153 bullets,...

Recently Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) garnered lots of publicity because he filibustered. He chose a very narrow section of a subject which merited far more attention than it has received. He wanted to know if the president could target an American within the borders of the U.S. with...

Although George Bush ran as a “compassionate conservative,” the present-day Republicans seem to have dropped the word “compassionate” from their dictionary. Look at their last actions. In the closing days of the last congressional session, the House didn’t pass the full...