11.03.2009 5:36 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sadly, many people in the health care debate are ignoring simple ecomonics and common sense in favor of talking points of the right wing and insurance industry coalition. The fact of the matter is that neither the current government system,…
11.03.2009 5:29 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Bruce Tinsley, creator of “Mallard Fillmore,” apparently considers himself an expert on what the modern comic strip reader finds amusing. Simply include the words “Obama,” “racist,” or “the president” in your strip and the belly laughs will follow. In the…
11.02.2009 6:21 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I have read the STL-PD for many, many years. Recently, I have been reading mostly on-line. I have noticed that regardless of the subject or contents, those who do not like it refer to the author as “liberal.” As if…
09.10.2009 5:45 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I want to thank Mr.Linck for his 9/9 letter to the Post explaining his pledge to keep from hearing new ideas, and that of most Obama haters, by declaring that “President Obama’s ….words will once again fall on deaf ears”!
Bravo…
09.09.2009 6:37 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I saw Julie and Julia this weekend. I didn’t know that Julia Child’s husband was subjected to Senator McCarthy’s effort to purge America of all those so-called subversives back then. But it immediately made me think about today’s political situation and the radical right wing’s accusations of…
09.09.2009 6:36 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The speech of the President turned out to be pretty non controversial but one needs to understand that this speech given was not what was originally planned. In the originally planned speech the White House had colluded with the Department…
09.09.2009 6:33 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In regards to President Obama’s speech to the students, as a middle-class father of four, director of a local board of education, and public education advocate, I was no fan of many of President Bush’s policies, but I never let…
09.08.2009 5:54 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Barack Obama is President of all Americans. He was elected to office by a majority of voters just last year, and as our President he should be speaking to school children throughout the nation.
In the 1950s, we students learned in civics and government…
09.01.2009 5:52 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The editorial, “The Veniality in Jeff Smith’s Fall,” has to be one of the Post-Dispatch’s finest. At last, we read some genuine Pulitzer material. In a sense, what has transpired recently should come as no surprise. His willingness to use…