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Commentary

Our government no longer stands for all

“We the people” means something we are doing together. Of, for and by ourselves. “In order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our ...

NCCF Local Economic Development group: Adding energy to Dunkirk’s waterfont

Ever since NRG started talking about shuttering its coal plant on the Dunkirk waterfront, people have had all sorts of ideas about what should happen to that facility next. For a very long time, a lot of people argued vehemently that NRG, or some other company, had to start processing coal ...

Pull back on the rhetorical reins

Let’s pick up where we left off last week. At some things, one just has to laugh. One just has to laugh at what four law schools did that at least in effect substantially diminished attendance for presentations to Federalist Society chapters: — At one law school: A fire drill and the ...

Penny pinching in parking lots

“If you see a penny pick it up – then all day you’ll have good luck.” Every time my mother bent over to pick up a penny, she said exactly that. Without fail. And she picked up every penny she saw. In her later years, her balance was not so hot. If I was walking with her and she ...

No losing sleep over late-night TV

With the recent announcement by CBS that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” would end next spring and the recent suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” by ABC my attention turned to the “Tonight Show” that started it all. The man credited with coming up with the idea that became the ...

Another lesson from the sports world

Earlier, last month, was the official end to the major professional golf tournaments of 2025—the final game of the FEDEX Cup. I know that many of you don’t follow golf, so I won’t bore you with the details. But, perhaps, the best headline of the whole year in competitive, professional ...