Basic Rights

By Dan Bodine   Everybody wants to put in their two cents on the current gun rights furor. Here’s a half-cent of mine. Elongated, of course. Hee, hee! Instead of a right to keep and use arms, make it a privilege instead. Just like driving. (Yep, used this line for years in courts with yáhoos [...]

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By Dan Bodine   EL PASO–Trendy critics have the U.S. Veterans Administration health care system on the ropes again because of long wait times in getting mental health services to returning war veterans from Afghanistan. My suggestion? Talk to the MH director at the local V.A. here. Give her more “doctors who stay aboard ship” [...]

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   By Dan Bodine   The weighty website Change.org may have jumped too fast into a recent school spat in Georgia involving a 6-yr.-old student described as so wild and disruptive police when called felt the surest and safest way of getting her under control was to handcuff her. Rev. Al Sharpton getting involved in [...]

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    How was your Earth Day celebration? Plant a tree? Flowers? Shrubs? Flowers? Vow to recycle more and pollute less? Conserve, conserve, conserve our precious natural resources, or something environmentally worthy? No? None of the above? You’re fibbing, right? Certainly hope so. Remember the first Earth Day celebration by the government’s environmental protection agency [...]

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