Cal Thomas

Time to reconsider Medicare drug plan It was bad enough that Congress, bowing to the drug and insurance companies, passed one of the most confusing pieces of legislation since the last tax code update, creating a drug benefit system with dubious benefits and mind-numbing complexity ("Medicare penalty fight seen," May 15). Worse, to stampede the befuddled seniors and their families into this confusing mess, Congress also enacted a deadline of May 15, after which a participant in the plan will incur a severe lifetime penalty.

Our great president deserves gratitude, not this 0) investigationRegarding the President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky investigation, all I have to say is this: Are our lives better because of this man?How can we be so ungrateful to a great president who has done so much for our lives economically and only has the failings that most of our presidents have had?To put the president in the position where his private sex life was made into a public issue was ridiculous in the first place. If Hillary Rodham Clinton can put up with it, who are we to make something out of it?