Lloyd Eckberg
There are some things I don’t understand, and there are some things I have a hard time figuring out. But that’s life.
It is generally believed that Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The final vote in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate tell a different story. In the House, 80 percent of Republicans voted “yes” and 61 percent of Democrats voted “yes.”
In the Senate, 82 percent of Republicans voted “yes” while only 69 percent of Democrats voted “yes.”
Lyndon Johnson signed the legislation into law as a bi-partisan effort.
Today, the mainline news media are accused of being biased and leftist mouthpieces for the Obama Administration. Their lack of sensitivity in the field of investigative journalism leads one to believe they no longer have traditional journalists on their staffs.
Has journalism as we knew it in the past died? Many think so. Years ago, liberal internationally known political journalist Walter Lippman was the scourge of the conservative community. Like him or not, he was an investigative journalist, the likes of which we know not today.
He is widely credited with instituting the idea that editorializing a news story is the right way to go. This practice today gives journalists a black eye. Many believe that news is news and editorializing is the culprit that skews many hard news stories.
I didn’t care too much for Lippman, but he had one idea that I liked very much and that was he thought politicians should strive to be statesmen and not politicians. Lippman’s legacy shaped modern journalism.
Defense of the U.S. will soon take second place in the federal budget. First place will go to “interest on the debt:” not a happy thought.
This looming item in the budget will begin to complicate governance in this country as the effect that interest on the debt will have on not only inflation, but a return to hyper inflation.
Hyper inflation will cause massive problems as those on fixed incomes will be the hard hit recipients of that condition.
When this begins to happen, it will consume the same amount of human energy to solve as unemployment does today.
I know very little about how our nation’s terror program works. I do, however, believe some of the dumbest decisions on how to handle the terrorism problem in this country have been made by a bunch of novices in Washington and it is high time for an experienced crew to take over.
I do know that very little information could be obtained in 50 minutes from anyone — terrorist or not.
Eric Holder made the decision to read the underwear bomber Miranda Rights, and that was, to me, an impeachable offense.
His same bad judgement led to the decision to try Kalil Sheikh Mohammed in New York City at a projected cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, while a state-of-the-art facility is in place in Guantanamo, Cuba. The list goes on and one wonders when the foolishness will stop.
President Obama made a very curious and poignant statement last week when he said, "Everyone is listening to cable news and talk radio and they are all talking about and discussing politics.”
Hmmmm, I wonder why.
