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Signs of an uncertain world

With all the chaos and the violence in this world, this is the perfect time to realize what God’s word says about future events prior to the close of life on earth as we know it. Here are some of the important events that will have or have already taken place before the seven-year judgment by God on earth; 1) Israel to become a nation (5-14-48), 2) a one world government (UN goal by 2030), 3) the exponential increase on knowledge or learning (development of AI), 4) technology revolution (instant news worldwide), 5) breakdown of social order, 6) digital currency (to control economic ...

Policy creates a 10% national sales tax

In 2025, the United States has essentially imposed, for the first time, a 10% national sales tax on the wholesale value of everything imported into our country. Even agricultural products that we do not produce in the United States are now faced with a minimum 10% tariff, which ultimately is paid by each of us when we buy that agricultural product at the grocery store. That 10% tariff, therefore, winds up being similar to a 10% national sales tax at wholesale. The minimum 10% tariff is paid to the Federal Government’s Treasury. It is, therefore, essentially the same as a 10% ...

Nuclear chickens come home to roost in state

In 2019, with great fanfare, then New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which Democrats claimed would usher in a new economic era in which New York state would lead the world in Net Zero (carbon free) electricity generation, and create a thriving new economy. A mere six years later, the bloom is off that particular rose. Excelsior denied. Cuomo also signed legislation to eliminate our existing nuclear plants, which were clean, safe, low-cost producers of Net Zero power. Why would Cuomo want to take nuclear power off-line and ...

The Washington Post: Trump’s treatment of lawmakers can damage his presidency

A common feature of Donald Trump’s two terms as President is that he can’t stand political prosperity. When events are going in his direction, he has an uncanny habit of handing his opponents a sword. The latest example came Sunday after GOP leaders dragged several holdouts across the line to vote aye and start debate over the Senate version of the budget reconciliation bill. The vote was 51-49, but Mr. Trump couldn’t leave victory alone. Instead he unloaded on the two GOP dissenters, Rand Paul of Kentucky and especially Thom Tillis of North Carolina. Mr. Trump dumped three ...

State’s hostility to fossil fuels continues

CHAUTAUQUA—Suppose that you want to lay and connect a natural-gas line. According to press reports: Under longstanding New York law, a natural-gas utility may not charge you for this if the connection is within 100 feet of an existing natural-gas line. Yet now some protest that it’s wrong to make existing customers subsidize new customers. Hmmmm. This subsidy has continued for decades? Why the protest now? Moreover, government frequently subsidizes—or requires subsidies of—economic activity? Why protest this one? ≤ ≤ ≤ Somehow, just somehow, one suspects that ...

Being bitten by travel bug

Of all the bugs I’ve known – from ants to aphids, from fleas to fruit flies – I like my travel bug the best. I was bitten early. After college, when I absolutely couldn’t decide what I wanted to do with my life, I embraced my travel bug and became a stewardess. It was the perfect solution. I realize how lucky I was to see a lot of this country and many other parts of the world. I never took it for granted. Recently, I was talking to a well-traveled friend about this, sharing some old experiences. We agreed that it’s truly the people you meet that make travel worthwhile, ...