BY THOMAS A. KENNEDY America is home to 21.2 million veterans — men and women who were willing to risk their lives for our country. Unfortunately, many of these veterans face a daunting personal battle here at home: finding work. According to the labor department, more than 700,000 U.S. veterans are currently unemployed. This simply […]
To the Editor, There is a story this week, something dealing with a baby found wrapped in a plastic bag at a cardboard recycling plant across the river. It is said by government officers that it will be investigated and treated as a homicide. The investigation has now led to Spring Valley. But isn’t abortion […]
By Robert L. Bradley Jr. On a cool night in July, 73 pressurized oil tankers began an unmanned descent into the tiny town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec. The Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway train cars detached from their locomotives, barreled four miles downhill, and exploded in town. Forty seven people perished. The annihilation was so complete […]
BY TED SLAFSKY Merrill Matthews’ Nov. 16 opinion column on the 340B drug discount program, “Congress Tries to Lower Drug Costs and Raises Health Premiums Instead,” arrives at a myriad of wrong conclusions. Mathews has a long history with the insurance industry that routinely raises health care costs and points the finger elsewhere. It would […]
BY MERRILL MATTHEWS If regulators seem confused about how to implement a health care program as vast and sweeping as ObamaCare, maybe, just maybe, it’s because they know how badly they’ve bungled smaller and simpler health care reform efforts — especially a particular drug discount program. Prior to 1990, many drug manufacturers voluntarily discounted their […]
BY DIANE DIMOND So, George Orwell was off by 29 years. In 1949, Orwell’s masterpiece novel, “1984,” wove a tale about a fictitious shadowy world in which government surveillance was ubiquitous, public mind control was an open secret and independent thinking was labeled and prosecuted as a “thought crime.” The tyrant in control was the mysterious being called Big […]