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Seems to Me . . . Howard’s Rock

June 19, 2013   The Journal

By Stan Welch

Like most Southern boys who grew up when I did, I played football from such an early age that we all looked like bobble head dolls running around in our shoulder pads and helmets. We fell down more often than we got knocked down. Nobody played soccer because, well, nobody played soccer.

You would have had an easier time finding a game of dodgeball in my neighborhood than you would a game of soccer. The closest we came to soccer was kickball. No, it was football from August to December back then.

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Seems to Me . . . The Republican party

April 24, 2013   The Journal

By Stan Welch

It is axiomatic that all politics are local. That is to say that policies and laws and political philosophies are felt most keenly at the level of government closest to home, where we all live our daily lives.

It is also axiomatic that when one political factor or element or party gains dominance and power; and no longer has a viable opponent to fight with, they begin to fight with themselves. An increasingly clear example of the conflict between elements of the Republican Party is emerging, both nationally and locally.

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Seems to Me . . . Sequestration cuts

March 13, 2013   The Journal

By Stan Welch

I think my disdain and contempt for our current president is pretty well established. The depth of those feelings, however, sometimes surprises me, because I can usually find some reason to think kindly of almost any political figure.

I have always admired Jimmy Carter for his Habitat for Humanity work since leaving office, for example. I always gave Bill Clinton credit for his economic successes, despite his total lack of personal character. But I can find absolutely nothing in the personal or public conduct of Barack Obama that leads me to feel any respect or admiration for him.

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Seems to Me . . . Happy hour

March 06, 2013   The Journal

By Stan Welch

I have just been looking at the agenda for the March 5 County Council meeting, and I’m sorry. I just can’t keep quiet any more. One of the major political issues in the country today is the size of government. Well, there are several aspects to that issue.

One is not just the sheer size, but the level of activity. Now, I realize I’m bringing this down to the county level; but as the adage says, all politics is local. The agenda I have just been looking at is almost three full pages long. I’ve been covering politics and government as a reporter for thirty years, and a three page agenda is a bright red flag to me.

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Seems to Me . . . School safety or gun control?

January 16, 2013   The Journal

The brouhaha about assault weapons and the need to control them continues unabated, and with little, if any, connection to reality. The shootings at a Connecticut grade school are the latest flashpoint in the gun control crowd’s crusade to weaken the second amendment and leave law abiding gun owners less safe, not more so. It has been widely reported that Adam Lanza, the murderous lunatic who walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed more than two dozen people last month; did so with an assault weapon.

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Seems to Me . . . Protect yourself

January 10, 2013   The Journal

(Stan Welch’s column Seems to Me . . . appears weekly in The print and online edition of The Journal.)

By Stan Welch

The horror of the mass shootings at the elementary school in Newtown Connecticut has hardly receded, but that hasn’t stopped its use as a political football. Our president, whose mantra is “Never let a crisis go to waste”, is busily making hay by appointing his Vice President, who happens to be from Connecticut, to lead a review of federal laws and policy on gun control. Let me save you some trouble and expense, Uncle Joe.

Federal law and policy on gun control is embodied completely in the Second Amendment. All else is a tempest in a teapot. The right to bear arms “shall not be infringed”. That’s pretty plain, unless you’re a leftist or a lawyer, or, god forbid, both.

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Seems to Me . . . Happy New Year!

December 26, 2012   The Journal

By Stan Welch

Well, the New Year is upon us and it’s resolution time. Personally, I quit doing resolutions years ago, when I realized that such artificial attempts at self-discipline are almost certainly doomed to failure; and therefore, doubly depressing.

No, as each year draws to an end, I prefer to look back, and list the things that really griped my tender parts, instead.

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Seems to Me . . . The Gun Issue

December 19, 2012   The Journal

By Stan Welch

We find ourselves once again faced with the horror of an armed gunman – an armed madman – stalking a campus and killing innocent teachers and children. Our hearts break and our minds reel at the insanity and the violence. We seek motive when there can be none that justifies the act. We seek remedies when there are none. We once again debate gun control, but the problem is we only talk about it in the midst of tragedy, while we are in the grip of terror.

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Seems to Me . . . Be Thankful

November 20, 2012   The Journal

By Stan Welch

Well, it’s been two weeks since millions and millions voted to give Barack Obama four more years. I think I’m starting to come to grips with that. I actually caught myself chuckling at something on the news the other day. Of course, it was just a picture of Nancy Pelosi, or as I call her, Skeletor. That always makes me laugh. Plus I feel better because I don’t look like that.

But Thanksgiving is upon us, and I am not so shattered, nor so crass, as to forget the many blessings I have. I am thankful for my mother’s continued presence among us. There were times this year when that seemed less certain than ever before.

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Seems to Me . . .

October 10, 2012   The Journal

The Great Uniter

While campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama said he would “turn the page on the ugly partisanship in Washington” and pass a bipartisan agenda in Congress. Instead, Congress set records last year (2011) for just how polarized it has become.*

By Stan Welch

I had the opportunity to spend some time with both our Congressmen, Jeff Duncan, and Senator Jim DeMint during the last week. Both men are home while Congress is in recess, and as they usually do, both are spending time touring their stomping grounds and meeting people.

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