I thought I had seen it all with Donald Trump, but his atrocious behavior in bullying the President of Ukraine in the White House went beyond the pale. Can you imagine George Washington or Abe Lincoln, or any other President we have had, ever doing anything like this? If it were done in ...

In Chautauqua County, more than 45% of children, and 36% of adults, are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program). That’s nearly half of our children, and more than a third of our adults. Overall across the United States, about a quarter of Americans, and half of ...

We spend a great deal of time on the remembrance of events from World War II. Even World War I is stuck in our memory with the significance of Armistice Day. And as I look through the annals of history, I see that my father’s war was called “The Forgotten War,” for apparently good ...

If the tangled mess of corruption in our federal government wasn’t already obvious to the average citizen, then the DOGE initiative has made it abundantly clear, except to the willfully blind, of course. From the executive order:  “The United States Digital Service is hereby publicly ...

If you saw a particular Sunday network-television-news program on Feb. 16, you heard the host say that in Germany, “free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” Yes, you read that correctly: “free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.” Let’s think that one through. Do ...

Many presidents taking office have promised to bring government spending under control by cutting the size of government and eliminating waste, those being the Reagan, Clinton and Obama administrations of recent memory. Guess what though? All the big talk never went beyond the talk before ...