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Dick Lyles: Sequestration was a joke; a bad idea in the first place

Dick Lyles

Any discussion of sequestration should start with the question “Was sequestration a good idea in the first place?”

Amy Roost: ‘A self-imposed crisis that could have been averted’

Amy Roost

I agree with Dick Lyles and President Obama that sequestration was a bad idea. It was designed to be. It is the fiscal equivalent of the Cold War mutually assured destruction or MAD concept.

Tom Elias: Immigration change for GOP vital, but not enough

Thomas Elias

Last fall’s overwhelming, more than 3-1 Latino vote for President Obama has at last gotten leading Republican politicians to realize they can’t permanently treat all 11 million undocumented immigrants like criminals.

Will Wooton: Easy for kids to obtain medical marijuana cards

Will Wooton

In the last year I’ve seen more and more kids with medical marijuana cards. I asked each of them how they got it and I could not believe what I was told. Again and again I would hear how simple the process was to get a card and what the kids are doing with it.

Roost: Getting it wrong often leads to getting it right

Amy Roost

The up-to-the-minute cable news era is in the process of being replaced.

Emery: We didn’t know we were racists

Bob Emery

What was great about the film “42″ was its ability to move me, to bring back memories, both good and bad, about a period in my life when I was a racist and didn’t know it.

Viewpoint: No secrecy about Common Core Standards

This is in response to the April 18 story, “Conservatives fret over proposed PUSD standards”: There is no secrecy; any information needed or wanted regarding the Common Core Standards is readily available to the general public.

Barry Cronin: Disappointment 101

Barry Cronin

Perhaps school systems should consider including disappointment as a mandatory subject within their respective core curriculum. For the sake of this discussion, let us refer to it simply as “Disappointment 101.”

Tom Elias: San Onofre helps fuel anti-nuke initiative

Thomas Elias

The operators of both the San Onofre Nuclear Power Station and the nuclear waste reservation at Hanford, Wash., could not be doing better if they actually wanted to promote a new prospective ballot initiative aimed at keeping San Onofre offline and also shutting down Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s Diablo Canyon power plant.

Roost on VA: Not making our veterans a priority is poor leadership

Amy Roost

It has gotten to the point where there must something more than what meets the eye going on at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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