Opinion

A group of tax-funded California artists are developing a GPS-enabled cell phone to help dehydrated aliens find water as they enter this country illegally.

Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama pledged to have the most transparent administration in history, and that his commitment to openness would compel Congress to embrace sunshine over secret dealmaking in reforming health care. “We’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies,” Mr. Obama said at one event.

To the editor:

Zeta Gorres is like a lot of patients at University Medical Center, Clark County’s only public hospital. He has piled up about $500,000 in bills since he suffered a traumatic brain injury, and he won’t be able to cover all the costs. Taxpayers are on the hook for most of the tab.

To the editor:

Attorneys general for 13 states have written a letter warning congressional leaders they must remove Nebraska’s “special dispensation” from new taxes under Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care bill or face legal action, according to a copy provided to The Associated Press last week.

To the editor:

Public education — where all is supposedly “for the children” — has a dirty secret: Its real organizing principle is jobs for adults.

I get No-Drama Obama. I see what it’s about and agree with it usually.

There’s a method to our madness.