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Debate Forum Right: 4/5/11

Why is the Beavercreek City Council under attack for doing its job? By David H. Landon Last week, the Beavercreek City Council voted unanimously against allowing three RTA bus stops to be established along Pentagon Boulevard, a busy highway which runs along the northern border of the Mall at Fairfield Commons. In voting against the [...]

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Debate Forum Left: 4/5/11

Criminal gangs war over buses by Mark Luedtke If you read the Dayton Daily News over the last couple of weeks, you might have thought the most important story in the world was whether or not Beavercreek City Council would allow the RTA to run buses to Fairfield Commons. Apparently this is a big deal [...]

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Free Speech Letters 4/5/11

‘Lawrence of Arabia’ made me remember history Recently one evening, I once again stopped my TV channel surfing, to view and to listen to Lawrence of Arabia, that big spectacular 1962 movie that deserved and earned several Academy Awards. This movie made me remember some history and relate it to current events in the Middle [...]

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Debate Forum: 3/29/11

Should federal funding for Planned Parenthood be cut? Planned Parenthood originated in 1916 when Margaret Sanger, already a nationally known crusader for birth control, opened the first U.S. birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York.  In 1938, the clinic was organized into the American Birth Control League. By 1941, the organization was operating 222 centers [...]

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Debate Forum Left: 3/29/11

Planned Parenthood is not the problem By Marianne Stanley Under the guise of cutting the deficit, Republicans have launched a full-frontal assault on American women. They masquerade behind a carefully structured mask of “Christianity,” coupled with a trumped-up need for “deficit reduction,” as they “slash and burn” their way through women’s rights. Take the current [...]

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Debate Forum Right: 3/29/11

Planned Parenthood: Maybe They Have Been Too Effective By David H. Landon Once again our debate this week deals with a proposal in Congress to eliminate funding to another liberal sacred cow, in an effort to bring federal spending under control. The target is the $350 million in funding that goes to the Planned Parenthood [...]

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Free Speech 3/29/11

Keeping sanity in the media I cannot express my appreciation in any stronger term than respect for your story on [the] environmental meltdown [in Japan]. I find some hope left to our country knowing that a person of your insight and common sense will help keep some degree of logic in the media. Good work Mark. – [...]

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Commentary Forum Topic 3/22/11

Crisis in Japan Causes Concerns over U.S. Nuclear Power Program Observers of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crisis in Japan are becoming more optimistic that the Japanese are turning the tide in their battle to avoid total nuclear disaster with round the clock use of water canons which have been spraying the reactors in [...]

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Commentary Forum: 3/22/11

Environmentalists Melt Down; Nuclear Reactors Don’t By Mark Luedtke On Friday, March 11, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. The quake was the strongest ever recorded in Japan and the fifth strongest recorded in modern history. It’s estimated the subsequent tsunami triggered by the quake killed over 25,000 people in Japan. [...]

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Commentary Forum: 3/22/11

A difficult, but nuclear reality By Benjamin Tomkins The hardest part of writing about human tragedies is figuring out how to start talking. Preliminary estimates of the death toll in Japan are somewhere in the 10,000s. That number is a little large for my limited, hyper-simian brain to deal with when it comes to suffering [...]

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High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]

Forum Right, 6/12

Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]

Forum Left, 6/12

It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]

Forum Center, 6/12

What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]

Forum Right, 5/29/12

Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]

Forum Center, 5/29/12

President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]