A very, very major major assertion about language
One of Trump's many annoying habits is butchering the Queens' English. He always, always speaks in redundant superlatives. Whatever he is promoting is always, always big big, or major major or great great. Not to forget the very, very importance of very very. Hell, even broadcasters on Fox News, members of Congress, members of our state Legislature and our governor now use that redundancy.
It's likely some elementary school teachers speak Trumpian. There goes the future of our beautiful language. Impeach that man! Bigly. Very, very bigly.
And according to the Sunday Democrat-Gazette, the prime minister of Australia stated his meeting with Trump was "very, very warm." Trumpian is contagious!
Budd Saunders
Durham
Concealed guns on campuses raise questions
As a senior citizen who takes classes at the University of Arkansas, I am concerned by a recent email I received called "Guns on Campus FAQ" by the University of Arkansas System.
According to the FAQ, students may not "store" their guns in any campus dormitory or residence hall. They must always carry their guns on them. Are we not just asking for trouble when a student who owns a gun is forced to carry the gun at all times?
If a student does not want another student in their room with a gun, they may, according to the FAQ, prohibit the armed student from entering, thereby provoking a confrontation with knowledge that one of the students is armed! At the same time, a student with a gun cannot be asked to leave a classroom because of another person's "adverse reaction."
The FAQ states that gun-toting students are not required to register their weapons with the university or campus police, so there is no way to identify which classes are safe from guns and which aren't. Guns must be "concealed" but "readily accessible."
The NRA evidently desires that all students arm themselves as the only allowable defense from other armed students. I refuse to stoop that low!
Aimee Crochet
West Fork
Where is the outcry over attacks on republic?
We have a grown man in the president's seat spending the wee hours of the morning feverishly looking on Twitter for those who offended him, and responding to every slight.
To our shame we enable him. Stop.
If Trump says he has intelligence that demands war, what will we do? Will we allow our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to go to an "alternative fact" war? Will we bear the torn bodies and the dead? Will we bear the cost of another president-made war?
I remember Watergate. In the beginning everyone pooh-poohed it and we lost a president. Now we can lose the finest republic ever created. Now we can lose a nation.
Every citizen deserves to see Trump's taxes for the last 20 years and our politicians should follow the money where it leads. If there is no Russian connection, why have those involved lied about their meetings and entanglements? Where is the outcry toward a president who receives 38 trademarks from China? Whose family profits from foreign businesses? Where is the outcry that Russia interfered in our elections? That our politicians are slow-walking any investigation? Why didn't our politicians tell us of Russia's interference when they first knew? Did they think they could control a "useful idiot?" Did they put their party and power before nation?
Where is the outcry that treasonous crimes may have been committed? Where is the outcry for truth? Have we cast aside truth for political parties? Will our nation survive without truth?
Iris Ciabattari
Fayetteville
Commentary on 05/15/2017