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ernor Romney came clos- est to winning, the com- bined votes for Senator Santorum and Speaker Gingrich added up to an absolute majority against him. Much has been made


of Newt Gingrich’s “bag- gage.” But Romney’s bag- gage has been accumu- lating recently, as well. His millions of dollars parked in a tax shelter in the Cayman Islands is red meat for the class warfare Democrats. But a far more serious


issue is ObamaCare, per- haps the most unpopular act of the Obama admin- istration, its totalitarian implications highlighted by its recent attempt to force Catholic institutions to violate their own prin- ciples and bend the knee to the dictates of Wash- ington bureaucrats. Yet Romney’s own state-


imposed medical care plan when he was governor of Massachusetts leaves him in a very weak position to criticize ObamaCare, ex- cept on strained federal- ism grounds that are un- likely to stir the voters or clarify the larger issues. The Romney camp’s massive media ad cam-


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waters into unnavigable swamps. Early attempts at “mow-


ing” milfoil were futile and actually encouraged new growth from the trimmed stalks and new rootings from the floating cuttings. Lakes have been drained in the winter to no avail, except to kill native spe- cies. The herbicide known as Diquat is still used to treat milfoil. Though ef- fective at wiping out a sea- son’s foliage, the roots are not harmed, so the plant returns the following year. Bethenic barriers (farm- er’s cloth) have been used with limited success, but large areas are impos- sible to handle with this method, and after several years, the plant can push its way around and up through the cloth to con- tinue growing. Even pull- ing out the plant can be unsuccessful if the diver


THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, February 16, 2012


paign of character as- sassination against Newt Gingrich, over charges on which the Internal Rev- enue Service exonerated Gingrich after a lengthy investigation, was by no means Romney’s finest hour, though it won him the Florida primary. This may well have been payback for Newt’s dema- goguery about Romney’s work at Bain Capital. But two character assassina- tions do not make either candidate look presiden- tial. If Romney turns his


well-financed character assassination machine on Rick Santorum, or Santo- rum resorts to character assassination against ei- ther Romney or Gingrich, the Republicans may for- feit whatever chance they have of defeating Barack Obama in November. Some politicians and


pundits seem to think that President Obama is vulnerable politically because of the economy in the doldrums. “It’s the economy, stupid,” has become one of the many mindless mantras of our time. What Obama seems to


understand that Repub- licans and many in the


doesn’t get the entire root. This is the major reason that one has to be state certified to “weed” legally. A second herbicide, 2-4-D has been most suc- cessful in killing milfoil at the root: a clay pellet containing the chemi- cal drops to the bottom and dissolves in the wa- ter column. It’s ingested through the foliage and causes the plant to over- produce cells or “grow to death.” The good news is that it seems to leave native plants intact, and does not bio-accumulate in animals. Often, several doses over a few years are needed to eliminate the weed.


Other times, 2-4-D isn’t


appropriate because the pellets are washed away by current, or infestation is too sparse to warrant large chemical doses. At these times, divers will re- move the weed, often as- sisted by a D.A.S.H. (Diver


Assisted Auction Harves- tor): A vacuum pump, sit- ting atop a boat, sucks up the plant through a long hose, fed by the diver be- low, carefully digging out each plant by its roots. The towns of Moult-


onborough, Tuftonboro, Wolfeboro and others on Lake Winnipesaukee have joined forces to use the lat- ter 2 methods in fighting the weed. Time will tell, but early reports indicate that we are winning the battle, and reducing both the acreage and density of milfoil. I urge everyone to support this effort by vot- ing to continue the fight in your town, signing up as a volunteer and educating others.


Karin Nelson Moultonborough, NH.


media do not, is that de- pendency on the govern- ment in hard times can translate into votes for the White House incumbent. Growing numbers of


Ame r i cans on f o od stamps, jobs preserved by bailouts, people living on extended unemployment payments and people be- hind in their mortgage payments being helped by government interventions are all potential voters for those who rescued them -- even if their rescuers are the reason for hard times, in the first place. The economy was far


worse during the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt than it has been under Obama. Unemployment rates under FDR were more than double what they have been under Obama. Yet FDR was re- elected in a landslide. Dependency pays off for politicians, even when it damages an economy or ruins a society.


Thomas Sowell is a se-


nior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Uni- versi ty, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.


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inner-city “birth control bureaus” to public school- based health clinics to the White House -- forcibly funded with taxpayer dol- lars just as Sanger cham- pioned. Several undercover stings


by Live Action, pro-life documentarians, have ex- posed Planned Parenthood staff accepting donations over the years from callers posing as eugenics cheer- leaders who wanted to ear- mark their contributions for the cause of aborting minority babies. “We can definitely designate it for an African-American,” a Tulsa, Okla., Planned Par- enthood employee eagerly promised. What has cheap, easy


and unmonitored “choice” for poor women in inner cities wrought? Night- mares like the Philadelphia Horror, where serial baby- killer Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his abortion clinic death squad oversaw the systematic execution of hundreds of healthy, liv- ing, breathing, squirming, viable black and Hispanic babies over 40 decades -- along with several minor- ity mothers who may have lost their lives in his grimy birth control bureau. City and state authori-


ties looked the other way while jars of baby parts and reports of botched abortions and infanticides piled up. Beltway Demo- crats who now bray about their concern for “women’s health” were silent about the Gosnell massacre and countless others like it in America’s ghettos. Why? The Obama administra-


tion is crawling with the modern-day heirs of the eugenics movement, from Planned Parenthood gold- en girl Kathleen Sebelius at the Department of Health and Human Services to the president’s prestigious science czar John Holdren -- an outspoken proponent of forced abortions and mass sterilizations and a self-proclaimed protege of eugenics guru Harrison Brown, whom he credits with inspiring him to be- come a scientist. Brown envisioned a gov-


ernment regime in which the “number of abortions and artificial insemina-


tions permitted in a given year would be determined completely by the differ- ence between the number of deaths and the number of births in the year previ- ous.” He urged readers to “reconcile ourselves to the fact that artificial means must be applied to limit birth rates.” He likened the global population to a “pulsating mass of mag- gots.” Listen carefully as this


White House dresses its Obamacare abortion man- date in the white lab coat of “reproductive services” for all. The language of “access to birth control” is the duplicitous code of Sanger’s ideological grim reapers.


Michelle Malkin is the au-


thor of “Culture of Corrup- tion: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies” (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is mal- kinblog@gmail.com.


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to foreign criticism. France’s UN delegate Ge-


rard Araud warned, “Rus- sia and China had made themselves complicit in a policy of repression carried out by the Assad regime.” For the United States,


the question goes beyond the Syrian crisis and revis- its and indeed questions the vaunted “reset in rela- tions” with Russia which Hillary Clinton promised early in the Obama Ad- ministration. Was the “reset” for better relations or superficially changed relations? Lacking an Arab-backed


UN resolution to defuse the escalating Syrian violence, it now appears that both the Assad regime and the embittered and embold- ened domestic opposition will see a military solution as the only road to change in Damascus.


John J. Metzler is a Unit-


ed Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues.


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