Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The radical agenda of Democrat representatives is stirring trouble

July 25, 2019 Robert McDowell

The way things are going continues to cause me greater and greater concern. Let’s face it, we are fully at war, a non-shooting war so far, but none the less one that could spell the end of the United States of America as it was founded and all the rights and freedoms we were born…

Someone needs to explain DST to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

June 27, 2019 Robert McDowell

With the 2020 election season well underway, it seems that the situations of candidates for the two major parties are quite reversed from 2018. At last report, there were 24 candidates for the Democrat Party nomination (the correct name) and no one so far with an “R” registration with the temerity to challenge our incumbent…

New Green Deal just will not work in California

May 9, 2019 Robert C. Lapsley

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey just outlined their estimated $93 trillion plan for a Green New Deal. It aims to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in only a decade by transitioning to renewable energy sources. While it has a catchy name, the Green New Deal isn’t much of a “deal” at all. Here…

Science doesn’t support the hype of the New Green Deal hysteria

April 18, 2019 Jay Lehr Tom Harris

On March 26, the United States Senate voted against putting forward Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-New York, and Sen. Ed Markey’s, D-Massachusetts, Green New Deal (GND) resolution to the Senate floor for debate and final vote. Those voting against the GND included all 53 Republicans, three Democrats and one Independent. Voting merely “present” (also known as…

Letter: Who believes the Green New Deal?

April 11, 2019 Duane Collins

All of the Democrat 2020 presidential candidates said they fully support the Green New Deal proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, introduced the Green New Deal resolution in the Senate last month. But when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, called for a vote to advance the Green New…

Editorial: AOC: Stop having children?

March 14, 2019

History does repeat itself. “And those who ignore history are destined to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, wants fewer babies to be born in America. A proud socialist, Ocasio-Cortez asked the question, “Is it OK still to have children?” Implicit in that statement is her view that, no, people…

No need for a new definition of the Great American Dream

February 28, 2019 Charles Biggs

What is the “Great American Dream?” When I was growing up, that meant that you could do whatever you wanted to with a large measure of freedom and a chance for great success. For other Americans, that dream is for a large central government that provide, housing, clothing, food, jobs, health care, free cell phones…

Editorial: Socialist predicts Earth’s demise

February 7, 2019

The world will end in 12 years. That’s the message from U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York. At a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, Ocasio-Cortez, made that grim statement about global warming. “Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like:…