If event organizers want to host a drag show, performers want to perform, and adults—or parents making decisions for their own children—want to attend, that’s their business.…
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M. Stanley Bugge
Governor Kathy Hochul’s Executive Order No. 62, establishing a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, is a necessary “time-out” to prevent our infrastructure from being overwhelmed.…
For many people in Otsego County, firearms are not political props or cultural flashpoints. They are tools. They are used for protection, hunting, property defense and traditions handed down through families.…
Peaceful assembly isn’t extremism and petitioning the government isn’t hostility. Bad actors on both sides have corrupted and obscured our rights. Why must the majority suffer for the wrongdoings of the minority?…
Free speech doesn’t exist to protect easy agreement. It protects the parent questioning curriculum changes, the citizen asking hard questions about city spending, and the neighbor pointing out local mismanagement. If speech only survives when everyone nods along, it’s not free.…
James Madison warned in his 1785 “Memorial and Remonstrance” that even minimal government involvement in religion inevitably corrupts both institutions.…
As a Libertarian I believe the government exists to protect freedom, not to pick winners and losers in life. If you believe in limited government, individual liberty, and equal protection under the law, then LGBTQ+ rights should not be controversial—they should be obvious.…
