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Commentary

The shoe is on the other foot

This is an old saying that my father taught me. I am not sure there is a way to describe what it means, other than it conveys the idea that “things have changed” or “the situation is now reversed.” However it is used, it seems to describe what has now happened in our national ...

60 years of opportunity with Job Corps

On Aug. 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Economic Opportunity Act, a centerpiece of his War on Poverty. Along with 10 other major programs, the act established a federal Job Corps program designed to increase the employability of young adults by “providing them with ...

There’s reason for religious faith in Trump

This is in response to the commentary Aug. 10 headlined “Evangelicals Who’ve Been Deceived.” I am truly amazed that anyone would criticize Evangelicals for supporting Donald Trump, and thus empower the political left which is as anti-evangelical as one can get. I find it even more ...

Press, academia infected with politics

CHAUTAUQUA—Knowledgeable people from across the spectrum should put their thoughts on the Corona Virus Disease-19, or CoViD-19, pandemic into books that laity can understand. Dr. Scott Atlas has done that in “A Plague Upon Our House.” Atlas, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution ...

No middle ground with radical Dems

What a country, what a party! Only in America could you be the vice president most “smart” folks in the party and at CNN and MSNBC want thrown off the ticket but then just hours later find that you are the party’s presidential nominee being hailed by those same people as the savior of the ...

New food, old food, too much food?

We have almost given up shopping at the big box discount stores. It’s time. Their membership rates are climbing through the roof as our need for them is heading for the cellar. We have a membership at BJ’s in Olean, Dear Richard’s hometown. It’s 58 miles away and he can drive it in ...