Mr Trump, with all due respect, I fail to understand your motive in attacking Senator McCain by suggesting that he has not earned a place of honor as a war hero for serving his country, getting shot down, surviving severe injuries from that shootdown, and then enduring 5½ years of brutal torture at the hands of the enemy.
It seems perhaps that your intention might have been to draw attention to the unmet needs of our veteran community. But I fail to see how you could possibly think that attacking and insulting a Vietnam veteran prisoner of war, and in turn an entire group of POW's from the Vietnam War, will serve to generate support for veterans in general.
Certainly we can always work to improve the lives of our veterans and both public and private sectors can always do more. But...
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My dear fellow citizens!
Service, in our Indian ethos is the ultimate duty – Seva Parmo Dharma. One year ago, you had entrusted me with the responsibility and honour of serving you as your Pradhan Sevak. I have devoted every moment of every day, and every element of my body and spirit, in fulfilling the same with fullest sincerity and honesty.
We assumed office at a time when confidence in the India story was waning. Un-abated corruption and indecisiveness had paralyzed the government. People had been left helpless against ever climbing inflation and economic insecurity. Urgent and decisive action was needed.
We systematically went about addressing these challenges. Runaway prices were immediately brought under control. The languishing economy was rejuvenated, building on stable...
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Dear Parents,
Stoni Ann Blair and Stephen Gage Berry were precious children with limitless potential, and their senseless deaths at the hands of their mother have shocked and saddened the entire state of Michigan.
Mitchelle Blair, the Detroit woman accused of killing Stoni and Stephen and then hiding their bodies, is a murderer who deserves, at best, to spend the rest of her life in prison.
This tragic situation is not, and never was, however, a homeschooling problem.
That’s why I am so dismayed by the introduction of a new bill in the state House of Representatives to exploit Stoni and Stephen’s tragic deaths as an excuse to impose new regulations on loving, committed, and law-abiding Michigan families.
Let’s be clear, this legislation would not have stopped Ms. Blair from...
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Dear sir,
Read your pronouncements on the autorickshaws of Delhi with great interest. You have restricted the powers of Delhi police to suspend their permits and given them the right to refusal on their way home. You have announced an annual hike, constituted a welfare board and spoken of financial assistance up to Rs 5 lakh for a fresh vehicle.
We know the autorickshaw drivers are among your core supporters. They kept the faith even during in your dark post-49 days phase. Like many other politicians, you have rewarded your key supporters. Indeed some measures are fine examples of social welfare, a touchstone of democracy.
Nonetheless, there are two sides to every story. And in your city — or is it the LG's? — the autorickshaw narrative is incomplete without the version of the...
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Sandra Bland was twenty-eight years old, young, with a bright smile and an even brighter future. She was headed to Texas to begin a new job at her alma mater, Texas Prairie View A...
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Dear George Osborne,
I wish to express my concern at the recent changes to the budget concerning the Climate Change Levy.
Although I appreciate it probably does make economic sense for the next few years, I feel that it is a backwards step to tax renewable energy sources in the same way as fossil fuels.
The decision to remove Levy Exemption Certificates completely contradicts the original intentions of the Levy, which was to effectively act as a "carbon tax" so decreasing the relative desirability of greenhouse gas-producing energy sources.
The changes now render that obsolete, instead just charging energy production methods indiscriminately, a major blow to renewable sources which will inevitably involve investment in these early days.
The rapid rate of consumption of...
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Like so many children around the world, those in Syria should be looking forward to the new school term. Instead too many are being forced to flee their homes in search of safety as the conflict deteriorates. More than four million children are now in need of aid in what has become the largest humanitarian operation in history, with one million children now seeking refuge in neighbouring countries – the equivalent to all the children in Wales being uprooted and left homeless.
Despite the political attention on Syria, the humanitarian response to this crisis and the children caught up in it is at risk of being forgotten. In Syria itself, almost one out of every five schools has been damaged, destroyed or is being used as a shelter for displaced families. Across the region, children are...
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Dear Mr. Obama,
I have little hope that you'll ever read this, but I have to get this off my chest. Since 1993, our military personnel, many of whom have had extensive weapons training including sidearms, have not been allowed to carry weapons openly or concealed on military properties. Yet on your watch the following incidents have occurred:
2009 – Fort Hood, 13 killed, 29 wounded–many permanently disabled
2009 – Arkansas recruiting station, one killed, a second wounded
2010 – Pentagon shooting by a 9/11 truther, two wounded
2013 – Washington Navy Yard shooting, 13 killed, three injured
2014 – Norfolk Naval Base, one killed
2014 – Fort Hood – AGAIN – three killed, 14 injured
2015 – Chattanooga, 4 Marines at the Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center...
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Dear Senator Flake and Senator McCain,
Thursday night I heard a banging knock at the door. I looked through the window and immigration agents asked me to open the door, conducting an “investigation.” They asked for Maria, my mother, and as soon she stepped out they abruptly, forcefully pulled her out and handcuffed her in front of me and Angel, my 16 year old brother. They also detained my older brother for no cause. Angel pointed out to them that they needed to take her medications because of her cancer, diabetes and high blood pressure. They laughed in his face, then ignored him. I felt helpless. Under this horrific scenario I didn’t know what else to do. I wanted to run and pull them both away from them but I couldn’t.
I spent an entire night crying and lonely. At every corner of...
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Dear David Cameron and George Osborne,
I am 17 years old. I am writing this letter because I am disgusted by what you have done to people of my age and hard working families like my own.
You pretend to care about people in hard situations and that you want to help people who are struggling to make ends meet, feed their children and want to better themselves. However, it is those very people that bear the weight of the cuts that your government has put into place, as if their own stresses and struggles weren't enough. You do not cut bankers bonuses, take pay cuts or make huge corporations pay the taxes they evade, all of which would be more useful to the economy than getting rid of help for students or cutting benefits.
You say that you want a more independent society, own whose...
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