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Pursue Viable Energy Options

Editor, News-Register: The current spike in gasoline prices should serve as a reminder of the stranglehold oil markets have on our economy. This is not a simple problem that can be solved quickly, it’s farcical when people suggest we just “stop using oil.” Energy availability is critical to every economic concern from industrial production to air conditioning to travel. Why then the strange political opposition to developing every reasonable source of alternative energy that we can think of? Energy sources other than hydrocarbon fuels will be the future, we can be the ...

Hogwash of the Highest Order

Editor, News-Register: Racists are afraid of looking back, and at the same time afraid to look ahead. They cite Critical Race Theory (CRT) for their denying the history of Native-American genocide and African American slavery as not true, and must be denied or at least blurred, for CRT will have a negative impact on their children (and their political power). Replacement Theory is a tenacious fantasy (from whole cloth) that claims liberal Democrats want to “replace” and disempower white Americans. It has become the mechanism of racist terror, helping inspire a wave of ...

Ethics Report Has Many Issues

Editor, News-Register: The Office of Congressional Ethics review of me, described in the OCE Report and Findings released by the Committee on Ethics, was tainted from the outset by the OCE’s procedural irregularities and denial of due process. These procedural improprieties are compounded by the OCE’s rampant factual misrepresentations, evidentiary exaggerations, and plainly wrong legal conclusions in its report. For these reasons, I believe the only fair outcome in this matter would be the outright dismissal of the OCE’s report and referral. Nonetheless, as the ...

And the Band Played On, and On

Editor, News-Register: In a world with $5.00-plus a gallon gasoline and where little kids are finding there really are boogie men out there (they just are in their schools, not under their beds), I can’t help but think back to my youth about three popular protest songs at the time. First was “Eve of Destruction” by Barry McGuire. For those too young to remember, Lyndon Johnson was president at the time of “Eve of Destruction’s” popularity and the Vietnam War was in full swing in 1965. On a good note, the song was partially responsible for lowering the voting age to 18. ...

Leading Way to End Alzheimer’s

Editor, News-Register: Recently, a delegation of West Virginians joined over 1,200 advocates in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Association. The Mountain State has a population of less than 2 million residents, but it has a big investment in this issue. A pair of bipartisan bills recently introduced by U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) seek to continue progress in preventing and treating Alzheimer’s disease, which costs the US $321 billion a year. A report from the Alzheimer’s Association stated that West Virginia’s Medicaid ...

Dysfunctional Congress

Editor, News-Register: Once again Congress is utilizing an omnibus spending bill to fund our government as the Obama regime did for the eight years of Obama’s tenure. This is a perfect example of irresponsible and unaccountable governing. The Obama regime took this country as far to the left as the Supreme Court would allow, thus the rabid hatred of Trump when he made his three appointments to the Supreme Court. The people in this country need to reinforce the fact that the elitist-minded senators and Congress people work for us. Who could have imagined that after Obama we could ...