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Military coups and personal incredulity Published: 4/8/2021 9:06:27 AM So riddled with errors and misrepresentations is John P. O’Rourke’s latest My Turn column “Sixty days” that it would require two such columns to fully correct. Three hundred words is certainly not enough, but it is enough to address a couple of points that stuck out to me. First, I find it concerning that Mr. O’Rourke claims “the enemy is inside the wire. I hope our military acts soon.” His statement leaves lit...

‘Difficult to be a conservative these days’ Published: 4/7/2021 11:03:28 AM In regards to the recent My Turn article by John P. O’Rourke, I am upset. It didn’t take much reading into the article for me to start to get mad, then it just got worse. And you know why? Because everything he wrote was factual and spot on and it made me very jealous that I didn’t write it. It’s very difficult to be a conservative these days, especially in our area that is dominated by the liberal left. Rea...

Exchanging Sixty Days for Seven Days In May Published: 4/7/2021 11:03:33 AM In 1962 Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II book, “Seven Days in May” debuted and went on to critical acclaim as a book and a movie. The premise of that book is similar to John P. O’Rourke’s contentions featured in the My Turn Opinion Page of Wednesday, March 31. The book’s plot centers on the discovery of a hawkish general’s coup plot a.k.a. “take appropriate action” to remove a pro-nuclear disbarm...

My Turn: Self-Reliance Published: 1/25/2021 1:58:13 PM John P. O’Rourke wrote a thought-provoking My Turn column [“Equality?”], maybe a month or even two ago. He talked about a debate he’d had with a millennial friend and he made the point that people shouldn’t whine and ask for handouts, but instead rise up and do what it takes to carve out a living for themselves. It is classic Emerson, and I must say I totally agree with him. Ironically though, I suspect it is exactly individuals ...

My Turn: Black conservatives ... excuse me? Published: 12/21/2020 8:49:03 PM Back on Aug. 8, 1976, Thomas Sowell wrote an article for The New York Times titled, “A Black Conservative.” His words speak of a liberal media. That rings true today. Why so one-sided? Why are Blacks like Larry Elders, Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas not being propped up by social media? The lefty media that brings you BLM, inclusiveness and equality is the same media that doesn’t give a voice to Blacks on th...

My Turn: Another point of view on equality Published: 12/15/2020 11:49:14 AM After reading John P O’Rourke’s My Turn column on Equality in the Dec. 10 issue of The Recorder, I decided to become another white male writing on the editorial page of the paper if for no other reason than to annoy the aggrieved members of a local political Facebook page. John believes that equality does not exist on our earthly plane (“our equality only exists in the eyes of God”) so therefore, by default, w...