Dental clinic

I'm calling to thank Dr. Ruopp for her excellent leadership in the free dental care clinic. It was excellent and much needed. Thank you to the volunteers for devoting their time and effort. This is a tremendous, generous community.

Benghazi obsession

It must be frustrating to many. The more Congress obsesses about Benghazi, the less the public interest.

Shameful

Everybody should try to get on the White House email list. I have been on it for a few years and got an email that is just shameful. It talked about how a few weeks ago, Obama had parents who lost children at the Newtown, Conn., tragedy and talks about Congress voting down the gun control legislation. I think it's shameful that the president would exploit these families to get this law passed. The shooter at Newtown, or any other shooter, would have ignored the laws no matter what was in place.

IRS targeting

Perhaps this goes against the grain of public opinion, but I think the IRS does need to target groups whose members speak favorably of nullification, secession and Second Amendment remedies.

Common Core

Would it be presumptuous of me to think that your recent headline, "Common core opponents form group to educate the public," might be correctly leading citizens to think that the group will not be educating them in a fair and balanced way?

Parental neglect

In regard to gun safety, it seems like the biggest problem is with careless parents who leave their guns laying out where anyone can get ahold of them. Maybe we need new laws to start prosecuting the parents for neglect and endangerment.

States' rights

Those who keep stating the supremacy clause in the Constitution keep forgetting the Bill of Rights. Amendment 10 of the Bill of Rights states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In other words, if the Constitution does not state that the federal government has a specific power, then that power resides with the state or the people. Nor can the federal government pass a law that effectively states they have power not assigned by the Constitution.

Coverage question

Sometimes I wonder at the motives of the reporting in the paper. A handful of complainers against Jackson schools with nothing new or constructive to say manage to get into the newspaper on an almost weekly basis. If they equal .01 percent of the taxpayers in the district I would be shocked. So why do they receive so much coverage? Is it a Cape vs. Jackson thing in a newspaper that generally ignores Jackson? Note: I did not go to either school.

Farm bill

If you read carefully, the farm bill is proposed to cost $100 billion per year. Of that $80 billion is for food stamps. Some is for food inspection and some for the forest service. Little of the farm bill is about farms.

Now to immigration ...

The current Washington scandals should provide cover for Congress to be able to sneak through comprehensive immigration and a whole host of other much needed reforms.

Executive orders

Now that any hope of bipartisan cooperation has been jettisoned, President Obama would be well served to implement all of the reforms he favors by executive decree and let the question of whether his actions violate the Constitution be sorted out by the courts.

Jensen column

In regard to Jensen's column that media should drop the hyperbole and focus on news, I agree. Enough is enough. I don't care about the news anymore, because I don't get any news when I turn it on.

School computers

I'm getting tired of the people who complain about computers coming to school. This person probably already has several computers, but there are several young people who don't have computers for a number of reasons.

Court dress

I was sitting in a courtroom and noticed the way people dress, not just the people involved or the spectators but the attorneys. You can't tell the difference between the attorneys and their clients.