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Sound Off for July 18, 2016

Lose-lose

Hillary and Trump should become co-presidents and co-vice presidents. That way the taxpayer can get the best and worst of both worlds.

Pet peeve

What is more irritating than fingernails on a chalkboard? The sound of a sucker trying to get the last slip through a straw.

Enough

Frank Myers has got to go — before he destroys everything we've worked for all these years, to build our school system into what it is today.

Unfounded

The manipulative allegations of the NAACP against a crime prevention director are nothing more than retaliatory politics.

Herd-thinning

Recent deaths of people playing Pokemon Go are good examples of natural selection at work. Darwin was right.

Truck control

How can civilized nations allow easy access to large trucks that caused the deaths of those people in France — on Bastille Day? He probably didn't even have a commercial license.

Misrepresented

Hillary says Trump wants us to be afraid of Muslims. Wrong — he wants to protect us by carefully vetting future Muslim immigrants. We gain nothing by allowing more to move here. Ask France.

Past time

ISIS has declared war on the world. When will the world declare war on ISIS?

This story was originally published July 17, 2016 at 4:00 PM with the headline "Sound Off for July 18, 2016."

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