Louis Roney: Right on!

• The killing of Osama bin Laden was delayed by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama for up to six months, we hear. Navy Seals under CIA leadership finally got permission to proceed from Obama and successfully carried out the mission. That former-President Bill Clinton gave the TV announcement of the first anniversary in 2012 was ironic indeed, as Clinton, when he was president, passed up at least three known opportunities to capture/eliminate bin Laden. Outside the Navy Seals, there are few real heroes in this story.

• Do you remember when President Obama thanked the U.S. military for fighting on his behalf? Can one imagine President Dwight Eisenhower’s having told our troops, “Thanks for winning WWII on MY behalf”?!!

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, patron Saint of the Left, opposed unions in government institutions. About half our present population opposes government unions. Today ultra-Left Unionists have pushed their ideas far beyond those of FDR.

• One can easily conclude that some kind of conspiracy from the top is forcing our policies re: the non-drilling for oil on our own real estate. The public therefore spends more money on petroleum products, and our national defense is weakened. How can airlines afford to keep flying? Who of us, despite our immense oil reserves, does not suffer mightily?

• If we eliminate nuclear power plants and the burning of coal, we must replace 65 percent of our power sources.

• At one time or another during his political career, Barack Obama has been on ALL sides re: guns. He may one day sidetrack Congress and slide his own gun rules into place by executive order. It is heard that V.P. Biden — no Einstein think-alike — has a gun he calls “Baby.”

• Wisconsin U.S. Representative Paul Ryan says he is fighting for a solution to budget problems that are based on moral integrity and principle, but not favoritism. “Hear, hear, Paul!” Shouldn’t our president propose a workable budget that contains that same spirit?

• In a September 2011 edition of Imprimis of Hillsdale College, Czech Republic President, Vaclav Klaus, tells of the negative effects of his country’s joining the European Union. His conclusion is that the same ineffective economic principles that have hurt the Czech Republic are slowly but surely robbing the U.S. of its historic international power and grandeur.

• The subject of “mothers who stay home and mothers who work” is often discussed on TV these days. Whether it is preferable for mom to remain at home all day, or to go out to work full-time, or part-time, is one, it seems to me, that can be evaluated only by individual needs and pragmatic results: How are the kids turning out? How did you turn out? Would you have been better off if your mother had never left the house? Or did your mother, by going out and working to help provide for the family, instill in you the value of work? Women, sharing their lives intimately with men, are quick to identify a weak-kneed man in the White House such as we have today. It was my grandmother who told me, “Don’t waste your energy on demeaning those you don’t admire—instead give your strength to promoting those whom you do.” My b.w. and I agree that we hate nobody. But there are those for whom we have precious little admiration...

• A wife asks her husband if he would like dinner. “Sure dear! What are my choices?” Wife: “Yes or no!”