Political news website Politico reports that the Trump transition efforts are using private email systems to communicate and plan President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House. We believe the use of private email systems by public officials to conduct the responsibilities of ...
President Joe Biden used his pardon power in mid-December as the Constitution’s framers had intended: as a pre-Christmas act of mercy. He commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were released to home confinement during the pandemic and whom the president believes have successfully readjusted into society. He pardoned 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes, such as drug offenses, following a case-by-case review of their applications. This is a stark contrast to Mr. Biden’s ill-considered pardon of his son Hunter and to the misguided notion, still under discussion within ...
A debate in Philadelphia, chronicled by the Philadelphia Inquirer, has caught our attention and, we feel, highlights the risks when a desire for historic preservation teeters too far to an extreme. Calvary United Methodist Church, in Philadelphia’s Cedar Park neighborhood, recently was ...
Politicians prattle on endlessly about their love for small business, as opposed to the corporate giants it’s easy to denounce. Yet when they get the chance, they saddle small business with laws like the Corporate Transparency Act. A federal court in Texas has handed Donald Trump and the Republican Party an opportunity by imposing a nationwide injunction on the CTA’s reporting mandate. In 2020 Congress tucked the CTA into the National Defense Authorization Act in the last days of the Trump Administration and it passed over Mr. Trump’s veto. The intent was to combat money ...
We agree with state Rep. Jamie Flick, R-South Williamsport. As reported in the Dec. 17 edition of the Sun-Gazette, Flick is troubled by President Joe Biden’s decision to grant clemency to Michael Conahan, a disgraced ex-judge of Luzerne County who presided over the “kids for cash” ...
Wednesday marks both Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah. Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazereth, whom the New Testament explains is God the creator incarnate as man. It begins the story of His life, culminating in His crucifixion and resurrection — the Christian ...
