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Commentary

Climate change is not new to our Earth’s history

I read an opinion in a recent issue that simply cannot go without a response. The commentary entitled “Keeping our nation rich with water” opens its remarks ridiculing those without a compulsion to jump on the “Global Warming” bandwagon at all costs. The writer fails to address many ...

Immigrants helped grow America

Labor Day … a day we celebrate the men and women whose hard work made and make this the great nation it is. For me, it’s a day to remember the generations of immigrants whose endless toil while enduring physical and emotional hardships have gone unrecognized far too long. Included among ...

Randall does Twain superbly

CHAUTAUQUA—It has become common for historical figures to grace the lectern of Advocates for Balance at Chautauqua, or ABC. In 2021, James Madison took time away from the federal city to come to Chautauqua to rekindle the American spirit. “No free government can long endure without ...

Convention trailer a haunting display

The appearance of a trailer providing vasectomies and abortions at the Democratic Convention in Chicago came as a shock. Last week at the convention Planned Parenthood of St. Louis came offering free abortion inducing medication and vasectomies inside a “mobile health clinic”. Once again, I ...

Rounding Third … Looking at home through another’s eyes

My step-daughter is visiting. She has come east from Marina del Rey, California for a week with us and to attend a family wedding in North Carolina. She was really looking forward to spending some uninterrupted time here, in Warren, Pa. I never knew Valerie until about twenty years ago and ...

Assessing risk, then acting on it

I have been back reading U.S. Grant’s Memoirs of the Civil War. It is probably the third or fourth time, and each time I find new “nuggets” of what made this man “tick.” President Lincoln worked with a lot of Generals during the war. Most of them could recognize risk, but many of ...