20070615 This Week in The Tentacle

This Week in The Tentacle

Friday, June 15, 2007

Partisan Nonsense

Roy Meachum

Our courtrooms cannot claim objectivity. We have an adversarial system, borrowed from England, our colonial "mother country." Still, things could be worse. We might have adopted France's Napoleon Code used in my native Louisiana.

Amnesty Hits a Roadblock

Edward Lulie III

The push for amnesty for illegal immigrants is not going away anytime soon, but it has hit a wall of resistance from voters. It has generated so much opposition that it may now become the central issue for the 2008 presidential campaign.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Coming Up Fast on the Rail...

Tony Soltero

Last Friday afternoon I stopped at a local health club after work, as is usually my routine. When I was getting ready to mount the elliptical, I noticed that the nearby TV was tuned into one of the cable news stations, spewing out the latest blow-by-blow on the all-important Paris Hilton saga.

Time to Re-regulate the Deregulated

George Wenschhof

One of the critical issues that Gov. Martin O'Malley focused on in his campaign was the rising cost of electricity. His speeches would include phrases inferring the Public Service Commission (PSC) should focus more on the needs of the working men and women of Maryland and not the energy companies and their executives.

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

The Fragging of Gen. Peter Pace

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced last Friday that he will recommend Adm. Mike Mullen, the current chief of naval operations to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - and not Gen. Peter Pace.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

A Gentlemanly Journalist, a Fierce Competitor

Roy Meachum

As downtown's Portobello Road owner Kat observed, "He had a good long run." Doug Chevalier was 87 last week when death found him in Florida. The Washington Post obituary said he had moved to Venice five years ago.

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Monday, June 11, 2007

Where do they go from here?

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

The Fredrick News Post front page causes most politicians to hold their breath. We all walk out front, pick it up, pull open the plastic bag, and then squint to see if something we said or did worked its way through the editorial process and onto the front page.

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Friday, June 8, 2007

Little Noted Nor Long Remembered

Roy Meachum

In this part of the United States, everyone should know the source of the words above. When dedicating the new national cemetery on the site of recent bloody carnage the sitting president said: "The world will little note nor long remember..."

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Thursday, June 7, 2007

Lessons by the Wayside

Chris Cavey

With the magic date of June 1, 2007, just past, the cost of electric energy in Maryland is back to the reality of the market place. Gone are the days of artificial prices, created by the Democrat leadership of the 1999 General Assembly and requested by then Gov. Parris N. Glendening.

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Tomorrow's Leaders Today

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Graduation season is upon us and this is the time many of us get some emersion exposure in the values and attitudes of our youngest generation, who are about to assume future leadership positions.

War and Peace

Patricia A. Kelly

I am tired of the talk about withdrawing from the Iraq War that associates withdrawal with failure to support the troops. The concepts are not synonymous! It would be possible to withdraw and support at the same time.