If you don’t like something or want to get something done, you don’t let little things like the Constitution get in your way.

Stephen Hays Russell, guest commentary

NEW YORK - As president, he crushed one of the few labor unions whose endorsement he won as a candidate.

For conservatives and Republicans who are wondering what in the world happened to their party, we should recall June 12, 1987. That day, 21 years ago, President Ronald Reagan stood before the wall dividing East and West Berlin and directed his famous appeal to the leader of the then Soviet Union, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

If you don’t like something or want to get something done, you don’t let little things like the Constitution get in your way.

Jose de la Isla

President Obama was supposed to be all about hope and change.

We’ll never know what Ronald Reagan would have done with WhiteHouse.gov, the official website of the White House. But I know my father wouldn’t be abusing it the way Barack Obama is.

We’ll never know what Ronald Reagan would have done with WhiteHouse.gov, the official website of the White House. But I know my father wouldn’t be abusing it the way Barack Obama is.

Despite the recent chatter about a flat income tax -- a tax that every income earner pays regardless of their level of income -- the idea is dead unless its supporters figure out a way to get together and support the idea that a flat tax is a fair tax. I believe we can unite.

Michael Weinstein, guest commentary

History is one of our greatest teachers.

When will they stop asking Republicans like me about our party’s choice for vice president?

For the past three years the United States Senate, under the leadership of Obama toady Harry Reid, has been an embarrassment for the United States. Now the so-called “Upper Body” has merely kicked the can down the road for two months on an extension of the payroll tax cut, and the House has rightly rejected the Senate’s maneuver.

WASHINGTON - NASA’s top administrator, Sean O’Keefe, said Friday he “completely rejects the proposition’’ that nothing could have been done in orbit to help Columbia if engineers had known the space shuttle was in trouble.

Finally some actual facts! That’s what I was hoping to find when I opened Rod Livdahl’s letter about the “tickle up effect”. Alas, it was not so. It was simply more “theory,” not supported by actual facts in an attempt to disparage President Reagan’s implementation of supply side economics. So I took one statistic, the unemployment rate, and did some research. These facts paint an interesting picture:

WASHINGTON — Soldier and statesman, Alexander Haig never lived down his televised response to the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. Haig died Saturday at age 85 having held high posts in three Republican administrations and some of the U.S. military's top jobs.

Neither the northeast Valley’s justice of the peace nor his Democratic challenger wants to discuss in detail their beliefs about the job — doing so would violate the ethic of judicial impartiality.

Neither the northeast Valley’s justice of the peace nor his Democratic challenger wants to discuss in detail their beliefs about the job — doing so would violate the ethic of judicial impartiality.

The Obama administration has seen a frustrating lack of progress in diplomatic relations. After spending so much time bashing the Bush administration for failing to achieve unity in matters of great international importance, this administration is failing to realize the types of diplomatic gains they predicted.

Dale Hancock, a former teacher, administrator and governing board member in the Chandler Unified School District, died Wednesday after battling an illness. He was 72.

September 7, 2004

For the past three years the United States Senate, under the leadership of Obama toady Harry Reid, has been an embarrassment for the United States. Now the so-called "Upper Body" has merely kicked the can down the road for two months on an extension of the payroll tax cut, and the House has rightly rejected the Senate's maneuver.