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• Nothing To Celebrate About

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO February 17, 2013
  Women in combat is nothing to celebrate about. Feminism is not about allowing women to fight in direct combat (Military ceiling lifted-Jan.25). Let's not be fooled by the smoke and mirrors campaign of leveling the playing field for servicewomen. Women need equal pay and equal voices NOW! not equal o...
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• Let's see a full accounting of Sandy relief "pork"

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO February 10, 2013
  Regarding the recently approved emergency aid to Northeast states affected by the superstorm Sandy ($50.5 billion Sandy relief bill passes in U.S. Senate) now is the time for a competent journalist to provide transparency to this bill especially since Sen. Dan Coats and Heritage Action for America m...

• This country without unions would be a terrible place?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO February 4, 2013
  As a retired union member I'm appalled by America's complacency regarding "right to work" legislation like happened in Michigan. What is happening in Michigan could happen everywhere if folks don't wake up.    Belonging to a labor union means more than earning a decent wage. It means job ...
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• Sandy aid should be "pork-free"

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO January 31, 2013
  Congress has proposed a bill for some $60 billion for relief for people caught up in the destruction from Hurricane Sandy. Interestingly enough, observation by this writer is that the GOP was delaying passage of the bill because they wanted it decreased.    It appears, however, that much ...
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• Poor should have pregnancy options

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO January 19, 2013
  As we get ready to celebrate the swearing in of President Barack Obama for a second term it is a time to talk about our hopes for the country. I would like to see President Obama submit a budget to Congress that does not include restrictions on coverage of abortion care.    Even if we don...
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• When in doubt, get guns out of the house.

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO December 29, 2012
  The mass shootings in Newtown cannot stand. Our congressional leaders need to do everything in their power to provide more logical gun restrictions in our country. We have been under assault for years and-at the very, very least-the bab on assault style rifles, etc. must be reinstated. Guns do kill ...

• Let gun owners pay for armed school guards.

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO December 28, 2012
  I support the National Rifle Association's position of stationing armed guards at every school.    However, I do not want my taxes increased to pay for armed school guards. I want the gun owners themselves to pay for it. Tax all guns with a sales tax of 150 percent and charge a permit fee...
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• How many more Newtowns must occur before we act?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO December 19, 2012
  How many more Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedies do we have to endure before taking action?    All of us are at risk, whether in a school building, a shopping mall, a church or any public place. We must put maximum pressure on the President and Congress to outlaw semiautomatic weapons...
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• Misplaced sympathy for Bradley Manning

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO December 8, 2012
  Public sympathy for PFC. Bradley Manning is misplaced. He may well be a misfit, but he is a solider who volunteered for the job.    As a member of the armed forces, he must do as he is told. He had no authority to release classified information to the public. He stands to be convicted of ...

• Revisionist History of the Clinton Impeachment

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO November 30, 2012
  I'm not going to say that anybody tried to deliberately mislead people in which it has been implied that Bill Clinton had been impeached because he had had a sexual affair with a female intern in The White House.    Nor am I going to say that anybody has tried to excuse his outrageous beh...
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• What would America do in Israel's place?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO November 24, 2012
  Has there ever been another nation that calls on it's enemy to vacate the premises targeted for an air strike, as Israel has done in the Gaza? After 10,000 rockets launched from Gaza into civilian areas over the last several years, Isreal has finally had enough. What would America do to protect it's...
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• Electoral College Must Go.

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO November 10, 2012
  Regardless of Election Day's results, it's time to call the Electoral College what it truly is-immoral. Obtaining equal voting rights has been a struggle in the United States since our inception. We immorally excluded women and entire ethnicities. We now find it palatable to ignore the minority vote...

• We have been made weaker?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO October 31, 2012
  I must live in a different country than some of my friends who say that President Obama has done the U.S. a world of good in his four years as President. Unfortunately, my country has a terrible economy with 23 million people out of work. In four years, the price of gasoline has doubled, the average...
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• I don't Think Anybody Won The Debate.

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO October 21, 2012
  The second presidential debate last week made me feel deeply uncomfortable. One has to wonder how high school debate coaches would regard the poor example set by these two candidates. I feel it was embarrassing.    Observing this brawl explains why nothing ever gets accomplished in Washin...

• Is President Obama soft on Iran?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO October 4, 2012
  After listening to speeches during the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, I have concluded that both U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may not take each other seriously.    President Obama repeated his old empty messages and declare...
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• Chicago School Strick

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO September 22, 2012
  The strick by Chicago teachers was about much more than class size, merit-based (or rather test-based) pay, teacher evaluations, privatization of public education through charter school expansion, longer school days, etc., although those are all crucial issues to disguss. The more pressing question ...
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• Free Speech?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO September 18, 2012
  There's no debate that freedom of speech is a core value that should be defended in the United States and supported around the world. The question in this case is the context. The obvious purpose of this film (Libya Attacks) is insulting Islam was to incite a strong reaction from radicals in the Mid...

• Voter ID Laws

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO September 7, 2012
  I get tired of hearing people say that requiring someone to produce a photo ID in order to vote is a form of voter suppression. There is little of importance one can do in our society that does not require showing a photo ID. Examples include traveling by plane, giving blood, getting a medical diag...
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• Every problem doesn't need a legislative solution.

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO August 28, 2012
  Around our country childhood obesity is trying to be fought by state legislation to ban school vending machines that sell junk food. But why every perceived problem demands a legislative solution is beyond me.  Don't schools principals already have the authority to determine what is sold in th...

• More, not fewer, troops in Afghanistan

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO August 27, 2012
  I am in complete disagreement with maybe it's time to consider speeding up the timetable for bringing all of our troops home from Afghanistan and the surrounding areas. We must never forget that the planning for and carrying out of Sept. 11th originated in Afghanistan and, in my opinion, the U.S. a...
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• Blame Ourselves.

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO August 20, 2012
  In the recent debt ceiling fiasco "speaks to President Obama's failure in leadership." It clearly does not. The debt ceiling "crisis" is not new at all. The only things prevailing are ignorance, greed and ego in a materialistic society. No single person can stem the tide of our self-indulging speci...

• Support Syria's Rebels

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO August 11, 2012
  The uprisings in Syria and other Middle Eastern countries, which are receiving considerable media attention, invite comparison to America's struggle for freedom and independence during the Revolutionary War. The rebels in Syria share the same aspirations should they win their battle against Syrian P...
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• Not all at Penn State done wrong

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO August 2, 2012
  What a terrible time the students, graduates, teachers and faculty of Penn State are experiencing these past few months. To have the entire reputation of the univerisity teeter on the choices of certain few men is very tragic indeed. A nation watches as an otherwise esteemed institution tries to reg...
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• Benefits To Same-Sex Couples

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO July 21, 2012
  THe Obama administration has made it easier for same-sex partners of federal employees to receive a share of their retirement benefits, while its lawyers seek equal benefits for legally married gay couples from the Supreme Court. Since 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act has barred federal agencies f...
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• Birth Certificate Gate?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO June 19, 2012
  Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not.    Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy of Romney's birth certificate released by his campaign. Willard Mitt Romney, the certi...

• Going Broke!

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO May 22, 2012
  I believe no other civilized nation would have tolerated such a scandalous and shameful record of neglect for as long as we have with our nation's health care as it is today. Do you know that 40 million of our fellow citizens who, because of poverty, illness or unemployment, must now live without an...
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• Spending Millions To Kill Each Terrorist

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO March 11, 2012
  Is there any way to look at the war in Afghanistan as anything but a mounting failure? We have been there for about 10 years and we have learned that the death of each Taliban fighter we battle costs at least $50 million. That's a conservative estimate. It could actually be $100 million.  &nbs...

• Anti-abortion-or anti-woman's health?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO February 19, 2012
  There is a Planned Parenthood office in my neighborhood, and on most Saturday mornings a small group gathers outside and reads from the Bible and prays loud enough so that those in the passing cars can hear them.    They are there not just to spread God's Word, I suspect, but to intimidat...
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• Even as a Catholic I support same-sex marriage

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO January 16, 2012
  As a Catholic, I have been taught, absorbed, and lived the doctrines of spirituality of the Roman Catholic Church. My Church has directed me well to love what is right and just. Not only to stand up for the oppressed but to search my own soul lest it harbor prejudice or hatred toward anyone. Being t...
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• Nobody can deny it anymore!

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO January 14, 2012
  It's been pretty clear up to this point to all concerned except the most partisan that the Obama administration is failing on almost all levels, the lackluster response to the gulf oil spill being just one of the recent failures a few months ago. President Obama is in over his head, his advisors app...
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• The American Student Loan Racket?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO January 11, 2012
  Today's young adults face a lifetime of diminished expectations, if not outright poverty. A majority of those attending college find themselves caught in the vise of a scissors crisis-low wage jobs and astonishing levels of student loan debt.     This financial strain is leading to rising...
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• Gay Adoption Should Be Embraced

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO November 20, 2011
  Sexual orientation should not be a factor in deciding whether to grant adoption and residents of any jurisdiction should specifically be granted equality to gay couples in the adoption process. Traditionally, the test for whether an adoption should be granted has depended on a judge's determination ...
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• We all have a responsibility to report child abuse

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO November 16, 2011
  There simply is no excuse that no one did anything-not a thing-to confront former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky about allegations that he had engaged in child sex abuse or get law enforcement involved. Were they all so afraid of being wrong to accuse, or even worse afraid of the...
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• Racism Today

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO November 9, 2011
  Mr. Herman Cain candidate for President says racism is no longer a sigificant obstacle for African-Americans. This is the same right wing that is conspicuous by its silence, its hostility or its complicity when the injustice system imposes mass incarceration on young black men, when the number of ha...
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• It's Time For Term Limits

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO October 19, 2011
  Congress sits in intractable inaction. Every perceived personal or political affront is etched into the memories of our representatives, spurring partisan retribution with future opportunities arise. The will of the people is sacrificed for the preservation of the party and the tenure of the person....

• Are they running for president or ministers?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO October 18, 2011
  Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said in a speech at the Christian-based Liberty University last week that he believes God has a plan for everyone, and that God's plan for him will be revealed in time.     Michele Bachmann, according to a finely wrought profile in the New Y...
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• Social Security/Ponzi Scheme?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO October 8, 2011
  Since 1935, Social Security has made payments to Americans of the age 65. Those Americans and successive generations believed their contributions were investments, and that they would be paid at retirement by the earnings on those investments.     In fact, those younger Americans wer...
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• Capital Punishment?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO October 1, 2011
  Does capital punishment represent triumph of confidence over truth? The year was: 2000, Frank Lee Smith is posthumously exonerated-he'd died 11 months earlier-14 years after being convicted of raping and murdering an 8 year old girl. The eyewitnesses were wrong. 2001: Charles Fain is exonerated an...

• U.S. Employment Woes

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO September 23, 2011
  I believe that we should look at the shoe on the other foot also in trying to solve our employment woes in our country today. Simply put, the reason jobs are flowing to other countries like India and China isn't American free trade policy but this country's skills gap, a mismatch of talent and jobs ...
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• What's Killing Jobs?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO September 21, 2011
  President Obama's economic team have come and gone: Larry Summers, Christina Romer, Paul Volker, and the list of names could go on. None of these people who left or those that remain has had any effect on restarting the economy or finding jobs for our people. Their only idea is more quantitative eas...
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• Bring those overseas dollars home

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO September 4, 2011
  It is time to bing the dollars home.     As much as half of U.S. companies' trillions in cash balances is in the form of overseas earnings (between $500 billion and $700 billion). Much of this money is trapped, due to America's onerous 35 percent corporate tax rate. But this money wa...

• The Bankers' Budgetdebt

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO August 14, 2011
  The financial elite whose only response to our country's financial crisis it has created has even more draconian attacks on the social conditions of our people. Budget cuts have been drawn up in continual and close contact with a handful of banking executives who have the ultimate say over money pol...
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• ObamaCare?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO July 13, 2011
  Everyone wants lower premiums, excellent benefits, long quality time with their doctors, the latest in diagnostic tools and medications, all people covered, happy doctors whose malpractice burden is low, no penalty for pre-existing conditions, no termination of insurance for sudden or severe illness...

• Worship God

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO June 26, 2011
  God has given us His Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins. God loves us and cares for us. Our response to Him is to love Him and worship Him. Jesus taught us that the greatest command is to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength."      &nb...

• Human Trafficking

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO June 8, 2011
  Girls 13, maybe 14, young girls being lured into prostitution-maybe right in your own state. They get turned out having sex with 10 to 15 men a day. If she balks, she'll be beaten, torture, disfigured or worse. She's in the equivalent of a hostage situation, alternately brutalied and showered with g...
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• Is There Any Hope for the Dead?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO May 14, 2011
  Why this Question Arises: We want to live, and we want to enjoy life with those we love. It is only natural thatwe yearn to see our dead loved ones again.                        &n...
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• King Had a Dream About "Workers' Rights"

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO April 3, 2011
  Once upon a long time ago, a tired man faced an audience of public workers. They were on a wildcat strike, demanding the right to bargain collectively and to have the city for which they worked automatically deduct union dues from their paychecks. The city's conservative mayor had flatlt refused the...

• Tragedy in Wisconsin?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO March 25, 2011
  A Maneuver of dubious legality to approve a "budget repair" bill and strip teachers, nurses, city workers and other public employees of collective bargaining rights, while imposing deep cuts in their take-home pay. The new law is part of a nationwide attack on public employees being carried out by b...

• No War With Libya!

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO March 20, 2011
  Rev. John, categorically opposes military intervention in Libya. This is a drive towards another war, it has nothing to do with the humanitarian pretexts offered up by the super powers. Rather, it represents the violent subjugation of a former colony. The upcoming bombing of Libya by French, Brotish...

• Marriage Discrimination Must End

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO March 17, 2011
  I still would like to see our American society be a more fair and just society. I support marriage equality. I firmly believe same-sex marriage is a matter of civil rights, equal protection and equality. Discrimination is wrong no matter who the victim is. This country can never move towards full hu...
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• Is Cremation Christian?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO March 10, 2011
  Should we as Christians be concerned about the disposal of the dead? Everyone eventually will have to make a dicision about how to dispose of a deceased loved one. What was once unpopular, even distasteful, is now a quick, inexpensive way to dispose of our dead. My question to you is whether it is r...
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• Christian Fellowship-Christian Companionship

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO December 12, 2010
  Christian fellowship occurs when two or more Christians are in one's another's company. The dictionary defines fellowship as "friendly association with others; companionship." Christian fellowship, then, involves friendly association with other Christians. It means you choose Christians to be your c...

• Christian Fellowship-What Does it Mean for Me?

  by Reverend Doctor John Reuling Sr. of The NCO December 12, 2010
  Christian fellowship begins through a process of adoption. Are you a Christian today? If you are, you have been adopted by God. You may have heard it said that we are all God's children, but the truth is, we don't become God's children until we are adopted, through faith in Christ. He predestined u...