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Freedoms being lost right before our eyes

I am Antifa. I have been writing these commentaries for at least a decade and in that time I have consistently put forward the “Liberal Agenda.” We want a single payer plan for healthcare. We want everyone to have a good education and employment opportunities. We want clean water and clean air. The minimum wage should be a living wage. All of these things go against Project 2025. Why do conservatives oppose these things? They claim we are trying to take from the rich to give to the undeserving poor. If we adopt a single-payer health plan, health insurance companies will still exist ...

Pegula opens up to Bills’ fans

ORCHARD PARK—Let’s pick up where we left off 50 weeks ago, at the conclusion of the Buffalo Bills’ 2024 season. That season ended in the American Football Conference championship game with bad officiating favoring what this column called the Kansas City “Chief Referees.” This followed a divisional-round-playoff game between the Houston Texans and the Chiefs for which referees were themselves called for bad calls favoring the Chiefs. ≤ ≤ ≤ Fast forward to the divisional-round playoffs following the 2025 season, with the Bills playing the Broncos in Denver on Jan. ...

Three sheets to the wind

I’ve missed that wonderful aroma of sheets and towels coming in from the fresh air. Sadly, my house deed states, “no clotheslines,” meaning no tee shirts flapping in the wind on a sunny day. Generations X and Y have probably never inhaled that glorious smell. Now all our sheets come out of the dryer. The manufacturers have tried, but there is still money to be made by the person who gets that little delight just right. Yesterday, I had reason to mourn the loss of that washday joy – the only good part of the laundry process I remember from being a kid. I was sorting sheets – ...

Guests should never leave hosts guessing

For some reason just before Christmas I was reading the electronic version of The Buffalo News I subscribe to when I came across an advice column. I generally avoid advice columns whether they be of the Ann Landers type or medical ones. Anyway what probably caught my eye was a section entitled “Do’s and don’ts for visiting elderly friends.” Because I wanted to ensure that visitors who visit my wife and I are observing proper protocols and because we can both be considered elderly although we don’t feel that way, I took notice. The advice was submitted by someone who ...

A presidency with no limits

Whether you like our current President or not, one thing that seems to characterize his actions is that there seems to be no limits in what he can do. In a recent two-hour interview with members of the press, he was asked if there were any limits to his global power. President Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It is the only thing that can stop me.” His answer did not mention any Constitutional limitations to his power. The public now is beginning to understand this as reflected in the recent “No Kings” demonstrations that sprung up around ...

Video adds to fear in ICE shooting

On Jan. 7, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers approached a maroon Honda Pilot idling at an angle on a two-lane street where traffic could still pass. The driver, Renee Nicole Good, waved an ICE vehicle around it and it pulled through. A second vehicle stopped. Officers exited and began shouting commands. At least one officer recorded the encounter on his phone as he walked around the front of the vehicle. Video shows the passenger, Good’s wife, standing outside the car filming ICE activity from the side of the road—citizen action protected by the First ...