Editorial

Editorial #81 Prayer and Politics

The fourth of July is our greatest national holiday celebrating the many gifts we have been given for being an American Citizen. We should marvel at the miracle of this country’s formation and be eternally thankful to those men and women who gave their lives, revered God and built this great experiment into One Nation, Under God.

The most hurtful part of giving any gift is the lack of appreciation by the receiver or not receiving a sincere thank you.

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Editorial #80 Labor vs Efficiency

In our quest for efficiency in our capitalistic system, there is a constant push to improve anything we do. Capitalism is the most humane, fair, naturally correcting, efficient form of economy ever devised with little need for government involvement or regulation. The free market works because if we don’t do the things our customer wants we won’t be paid. This systems is nearly impossible to improve upon.

The only way anyone can survive in a capitalistic system is to do,

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Editorial #79 The Art of War

In our world there are natural laws that cannot be broken. Gravity, light and evolution are among the physical principles with which we all must deal.

Humans are in this evolutionary cycle that brought us to this point in world history which includes famine, oppression and war. This evolutionary process was noted in Darwin’s theory know as natural selection or survival of the fittest. It is cruel,

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Editorial #78 Do No Harm

I am amazed at the contrasting stories we hear in the news these days. It is almost like the networks are looking at a completely different situations with the story line and conclusions polar opposites.

The Hippocratic Oath taken by doctors when they dedicate their life to helping people says: “Do no harm!” There should be a similar oath required by politicians and news reporters as well.

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Editorial #77 New Political Words

In this day of differing opinions and contrasting ideas, a completely new set of vocabulary definitions have arrived. These words now have a “black hat” or “white hat” connotation that stirs emotions by their use, practically eliminating any possibility for civil discourse.

Words like pro-life, pro-choice, social justice, health care rights, climate change, safe speech zones, discrimination, diversity, economic freedom, or immigration, each categorizes a person with a full description of what is meant.

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Editorial #76 True Property Tax Relief

All attempts at fixing the property tax disaster in Nebraska have failed again. Everyone seems to supports property tax cuts but fear their special program will not be funded is taxes are reduced. They act like a trust baby who thinks if there are checks in the check book, there must be money in the account. Of course, no one wants their pet program eliminated, but this uncontrolled spending is getting out of hand and must stop.

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Editorial #75 Is News Useful?

We all try to survive life with a minimum of inconvenience and expense. Our mission in life is to make the world a better place and to teach others how to do the same. To do this we need information to make decisions to better survive this complications of life of ours. Today we are ambushed with information from our surroundings and is expanding at an exponential rate to a point where there is so much,

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Editorial #74 Fake News

With the technological advancement over the past 30 years the phenomena of fake news has finally risen to a point of serious public awareness and concern, spread by social media.

Fake news has been present for thousands of years which was previously called propaganda. In the past, only the powerful were able to advance their propaganda by using their influence with the media and their government controlled news agencies.

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Editorial #73 Our Legislature

Once again our Nebraska Legislature managed to run out the clock and got practically nothing done regarding our most pressing issue, property taxes.

The Unicameral had 90 days, scattered over 5 months, to get something accomplished. Practically every member of the Unicameral promised they would do something to stop the unbearable burden of property tax that is literally killing our agricultural economy.

But, instead, they got roped into debating transgender issues,

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Editorial #72 The National Debt

The concerns about our national debt has been an issue for as long as I can remember. My first recollection of the term was in 1960 when President Kennedy mention that our debt was $200 billion. Today our national debt over $20 trillion or 100 more.

Of all the problems we have, the debt is not among our top five concerns. National security, Illegal immigration, lack of respect for life and corruption are much more serious problems.

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