Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v. Felix is the issue of how one determines whether a seizure is reasonable. No matter who ...

We finished undressing the Christmas tree on Friday. Today, Monday, a kind friend helped us take it apart and bag it. Yes, I know. It’s March 10th as I write this. I hear this echo in my head, “You’re just getting your Christmas tree down? It’s Lent already!” I was annoyed when I ...

They acted like spoiled petulant children. There is no other way to describe how Democrats acted during President Donald Trump’s speech to the joint session of Congress. They never rose to acknowledge a female athlete injured by a trans male, a young cancer survivor who aspires to be a law ...

Every year, St. Patrick’s Day brings to mind several things, including my blessed Aunt Mary Donnelly Van Slyke, the most sainted woman I’ve ever met. She spent a long lifetime ministering to the needs of her family, friends and numerous others by providing words of comfort and a warm ...

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 ...