Roy Berger

Memorial Day, my wife and I will toast the continuing courage and devoted sacrifices of the wives, girl/boy friends, mothers, and fathers of returning military members who have served in all wars, and especially recent conflicts. Veterans not only have physical wounds, but much deeper emotional wounds that their military training taught them to bury […]

Veteran’s Day, I will remember the Marines who unnecessarily lost their lives on Iwo Jima. That battle was unnecessary to win the war. The Admirals sent in the Marines to be butchered because they were seeking revenge for Peal Harbor and trying to regain the American public respect. The war’s end was near; it was […]

I am tired of the constant whining by teachers. If your job and pay makes you unhappy, quit. Compared to many other jobs, you are doing quite well, but you can’t be doing your best if you are disgruntled at your job. So, in the interests of the students as well as your own mental […]

For my whole life, I have been buying used clothing when possible; it started in childhood since I was the younger boy and it was a matter of economics. But no more! Now when I buy at Goodwill, I am recycling, thank you.

Fundamentalist, hate-filled Christians are rabble-rousing Americans against all Muslims. I hope no one will fall for this abominable un-American garbage against free choice of religion. Although no records were kept on what religions the victims of 9/11 were, it is estimated between 200 and 300 innocent Muslims were victims of that horrendous attack. To not […]

Facts: 1. Our country has very, very low taxes. It is almost at the bottom of the list of top 30 developed nations, 26th in fact. 2. Millionaires default on home payments at more than twice the rate of us ordinary citizens. 3. The right wing agitators lie, lie, lie. Check it out for yourself […]

No-tax groups are not against taxes, only those for services they don’t like: those that help others than themselves. I don’t like my taxes going for our troops being killed and maimed in useless, unwinnable wars. I don’t like supporting churches with my taxes. I don’t like supporting large airports I will never use, and […]

There is again political outcry to make teachers responsible. But how can teachers be held accountable when parents, taxpayers, and administrators aren’t? We lived in a middle class white neighborhood in Sacramento County when I volunteered to help in a third grade classroom. There were 32 children in the class, a third of which were […]

Global warming is inevitable whether we think it’s caused by human activity as the greenies believe or not. It is one of the many changes constantly taking place on our planet. Instead of spending billions on reducing greenhouse gasses and asking poor countries to not use fossil fuels—and thereby have millions of people die of […]

It’s time men and women, young and old, began accepting responsibility for their behavior—Mackenzie Phillips being the latest in a long line of celebrities who want to blame their parents for their troubles.   It is rare that in this country people don’t have a choice. They have decided to go with whatever is most […]

Today we were driving 50 on Orcutt Road in the country when a motorcyclist with a short-sleeved T zoomed past us at twice that speed. When he has an “accident,” who will pay the medical bills? The answer is we, the sane, responsible people.   The Arroyo Grande council noted that when people riding the […]

In the Cambridge brouhaha about the white cop arresting a black professor in his home, what is being ignored is who called the cops and why.   Was it a neighbor with a grudge? Was it a white who saw a black trying to get in the house? That call is what set the stage […]