In 2018, parts of the government shut down because a consensus could not be reached about President Trump’s proposed border wall. This time around, despite the July 4, 2025 passage of Public Law No: 119-21, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and passage of the current CR by the House of Representatives, final budget approval for the 2025-2026 fiscal year is currently stalled in the Senate after nine—count them, nine—roll call votes.…
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"The picture of the world’s greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny, backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.”…
Just hours after conservative and spiritual activist Charlie Kirk was gunned down in front of thousands of students who had gathered at Utah Valley University for the start of his “American Comeback Tour,” Utah Governor Spencer Cox spoke at a press conference about the shooting. I was deeply moved.…
Cleo Mook rebuts a Waldo Johnston limerick.…
We’re not advocating here for any one political party or viewpoint. We are, however, emphasizing that—by accepting any legacy media reporting simply at face value in this day and age—we may be doing ourselves and our country a great disservice.…
For the past several years, Donald Trump has complained incessantly about his mistreatment at the hands of federal and state law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and judges. He and his minions have whined that Trump has been the subject of “witch hunts,” selective prosecutions for fabricated charges, and trivial offenses.…
The first convention I attended was for Goldwater in 1964. The national convention was contested—Goldwater had not won a majority of delegates before the convention. Same drill in 1968 in Chicago, candidate Humphrey was chosen at the convention, as Gerald Ford was in 1976 over Reagan. Not coincidentally, the winners of these messily contested conventions all went on to lose in the general election.…
The editorial in the July 4 edition of “Hometown Oneonta” [“Damn, Nation”] contained a jarring disconnect. It listed six factors helpful to citizens as they think about who should lead, but then went on to ignore them and state that both parties have failed us. I think it would be helpful to apply them one by one to see how things stand.…
The recent performance of Biden in the debate of June 28 has given rise to much concern about the president’s cognitive status. Recently it has been suggested, by neurologists and others, that the president has Parkinson’s disease. A starting point should be an understanding of what that implies.…
Letter from Ashok Malhotra Appeal to President Biden: Please End War As the war in Ukraine is escalating because of the ego-tripping of Russian President Putin and a more powerful response from the NATO countries along with the U.S. aid to the president of Ukraine to fight against the Russian aggression, there appears to be no end in sight to the war. Thousands of Russian missiles and drones fired at the Ukrainian cities to raze its monuments and to kill…
