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Columns

  • Elected officials can’t ‘play ostrich’

    By Kelly Harmony
    Bedford County School Board
    District 6

        I would like to share a few thoughts of my last four years on the School Board as everyone prepares to vote on June 9.
        Kevin Willis and I joined the fight in Bedford County before we were ever elected to the board. Attending countless meetings, researching information becoming educated on the topics at hand.

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  • Candidates riding in on donkeys

        The 2016 Republican presidential field now includes religious right candidates, for whom running for president is like riding their donkeys into Jerusalem.
        A significant part of the party base (perhaps as much as 25 percent) is still said to be “evangelical Christians.”

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  • Our veterans deserve better from the VA

    By Congressman Robert Hurt

    Last month marked one year since we learned of the gross mismanagement at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that resulted in tragic outcomes for those who have made countless sacrifices to protect our nation’s freedoms. The problems within the VA are the result of a broken system, and though our work is far from over, the House has worked to implement meaningful, structural reforms to ensure our veterans have the care they deserve.

     

     

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  • School lunches that kids will eat
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  • Run, Bernie run: Defend the middle class

        Vermont’s independent U.S. Senator confirmed last week what many have suspected: Bernie Sanders will be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.
        If you don’t follow politics as intensely as I do, it’s possible you’ve never heard of him. But that’s going to change very soon.
        Once known as “the socialist mayor of Burlington,” Vermont, Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012.

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  • Better change now before it’s too late

        One of the fascinating things about the denizens of the “Democratic” Party’s extreme-left wing swamp is the way they attack conservative critics of President Barack Obama’s efforts to negotiate a deal, any deal even if it’s a bad deal, with Iran on nuclear weapons. In their parlance, conservative critics of President Obama are war mongers. They claim we want to start a war.

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  • The CFPB needs Increased transparency and accountability

    By Congressman Robert Hurt

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  • Tax reforms are the foundation of an opportunity economy

    Tax Day has come and gone, but the aggravation and frustration of tax season is still fresh in many minds. It’s during this particularly “taxing” time of year that hard working Americans are confronted with piles of forms, confusing instructions, and the prospect of turning more of their hard-earned money over to the government. Anyone who has filed taxes knows that the current tax code is overly complex and unfair. If America is to remain competitive in the global economy and build an economy ripe with opportunity here at home, the current tax system must be reformed.

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  • Death penalty: The other ‘pro-life’ issue

        People who consider themselves “pro-life” have spent decades protesting abortion and rallying against Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that certified the legal right to an abortion.
        For most of them, they have long ignored the other aspect of the “pro-life” equation, which is capital punishment. In fact, most conservatives who are adamantly against abortion are also in favor of the death penalty.

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  • Annoying liberals can be fun

        As I mentioned in this space back in the Bulletin’s Sept 17 edition, liberals can be a lot of fun. Specifically, needling liberals can be a lot of fun because the have such a “holier than thou” attitude that it’s not difficult to anger them. Last year, I only had to put out some bait, and wait for Rick Howell to go ballistic. This year, I had to needle him twice to get him to lift safeties.

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