Category: Opinion

Dear Editor, Dystopia, Per Merriam Webster: an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. Dystopia is no longer an imagined society or world coming full speed our way. Just take a look at the misery and suffering of the millions of homeless on the streets of our once great nation. Look closely at the once great state of California and the conditions there. The politicians who believe in societal engineering and the rewards of socialism are still proud, if you can believe that, of the condition of their state. It can take a while to…

Dear Editor, Dystopia, Per Merriam Webster: an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. Dystopia is no longer an imagined society or world coming full speed our way. Just take a look at the misery and suffering of the millions of homeless on the streets of our once great nation. Look closely at the once great state of California and the conditions there. The politicians who believe in societal engineering and the rewards of socialism are still proud, if you can believe that, of the condition of their state. It can take a while to…

Dear Editor, Wow! Ask a conservative to explain their beliefs, prepare yourself to be called names and have your character assassinated if they cannot give a logical answer. Take the Treaty of Tripoli for instance. The fact is, the word ‘asserting’ (as was stated by the writer of the letter “Freedom” in the Nov. 6 issue of The Standard) is not found in the text. A group of people calling themselves ‘wallbuilders’, founded by David Barton, an evangelical Christian political activist and founder of the organization ‘that promotes unorthodox theories about the religious basis of the United States’ argues –…