Rick Perry’s Positions

by: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 8/30/2011 A Critique of Rick Perry’s Positions by the LA Times Social Security: Perry sees it as a misguided product of the New Deal. In “Fed Up!”, Perry envisions a future in which “there will be a retirement safety net...

Call me Senator Not “Maam”

By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND & Jim Hill 6/28/2011 Re: Barbara Boxer From: Jim Hill, Pilot Babs: You were so right on when you scolded the general on TV for using the term, “ma’am,” instead of “Senator”. After all, in the military, “ma’am” is a term of respect when...

The Lawyer’s Party

The Lawyers’ Party A LAWYER WITH A BRIEFCASE CAN STEAL MORE THAN A THOUSAND MEN WITH GUNS. “First, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Shakespeare The Lawyers’ Party By Bruce Walker The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers’ Party. Barack Obama is a...

Republican Party Bashing

Republican Party Bashing by: Thomas Abshier —- Original Message —– From: John K. To: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 3:01 PM Subject: Garrison Keillor “We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore” Dear Thomas, I found...

Patriotism

By: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 2/28/2004 EDITORIAL DESK | February 15, 2004, Sunday My War By Larry David (NYT) 645 words Late Edition – Final , Section 4 , Page 11 , Column 2 DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 645 WORDS – “I couldn’t be happier that President Bush...

High Stakes: Kerry vs Bush

From: Terre’ Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:43 PM CAMPAIGN 2004 High Stakes Quite simply, Kerry must be stopped; and Bush must win PAUL JOHNSON The great issue in the 2004 election (it seems to me as an Englishman) is, How seriously does the United States...

Capital Punishment

by: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND 8/16/2011 On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:56 AM, From: Thomas Lee Abshier, ND To: John Dear John, Thomas: Since you brought up the issue of capital punishment, I shall now address it, since I did purposely did not include it in the argument re:...