‘Commentary’ Archives
Cultivating Heavy Soil
By Peter Molenaar Transforming the USA along socialist lines is like propagating a garden in heavy soil. Dense soils tend to impede germination and root development. Yet, when properly conditioned, a “clay soil” is the most fertile and will produce glorious results. Marxism teaches that external factors are the conditions of change, while internal contradictions are the basis. If things are not right, the seed will not deliver us the flower. Might hard work and perseverance render our desire? As it happened”¦ An elder Korean woman from the community garden kindly gifted me several seed packets from her homeland. The English label read “Blue Bell Root.” In addition to its lovely flowers, this plant produces roots which will cure most diseases and extend our life spans. So, the work was cut out for me. Available to me were several raised beds which, since an early harvest of kimchi radishes, had been fallow beneath grass [...]
Commentary: Cameras in the courtroom: fairness and equality will follow. “there”'s none so blind as they that won”'t see.”
BY CRAIG SEIFERT The Yanez verdict demonstrates the need for cameras in the courtroom. Centuries of courtroom secrecy must end, cameras are the vehicle to bring about the needed and necessary changes in criminal, civil and family courts, and would have an immediate effect on equality and the fair administration of justice for all. Besides that, the cameras allow the voters the ability to observe and evaluate the past performance, judicial temperament and other factors for a judge seeking county-wide re-election. Courtroom cameras would enable voters to observe judges and evaluate an incumbent judge up for re-election and make a knowingly and intelligent choice when casting their vote based upon the past performance of the judge. Judges”' are supposed to be neutral, like a referee in a hockey game, however, a skilled judge while giving the appearance of fairness, can subtly steer the outcome and verdict of a case unjustly. For instance, Judge Leary”'s withholding the [...]
