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Socialism is communism

Just a few years ago the thought of communists running for election in our country was not even in the minds of Americans. In their political rhetoric, these communists are saying how they want to destroy America. They want to abolish ICE and our police. They will take away your home and property and eventually come for your guns. They hate America, capitalism and our freedoms. They will take control of our lives and the lives of our children and grandchildren. These communists and all who agree with their rhetoric should be removed from our government. They are enemies of our ...

Benefitting from impact fee

Tioga County continues to benefit from Pennsylvania’s natural gas impact fee. This year, the county received nearly $3.5 million in the annual revenue distribution, while municipalities throughout the county received a little over $6 million in total. These are dollars that can go towards important projects aimed at improving our overall quality of life in the county. Impact fee revenues can go towards a wide range of community improvements - from infrastructure upgrades to park and green space improvements to road and bridge projects to grants for equipment updates for first ...

Fight, fight, fight

Trump’s famous words. Along with “regime change.” But regime change not so much for Iran as for America. To turn our republic into an autocracy. He’s going to monkey with the legality of the midterm elections in an attempt to stay in power. He’ll most certainly raise the specter of the Communist menace. Hell, it’s worked in the past. He might use the Iranian War as a pretense for martial law. Look at it. The fix is already in. One need only open the book to mid-twentieth century European History. It’s as plain as the nose on our collective face. Trump’s ...

One nation under God

Recently there was a letter titled Not a Christian Nation. This letter rightly pointed out that the first amendment forbids the establishment of a national religion in the United States while trying to claim that America is not a Christian nation. While the Government may not be able to recognize American as a Christian nation and had the opportunity to in 1894 when they had the choice to add an amendment to recognize Jesus as the supreme authority of human affairs. The founders envisioned a nation build on Judeo-Christian values. What makes America a Christian nation is not the ...

Smoke in our eyes

Smoke gets in your eyes. And your hair. And your clothes. And your lungs. This week, Pennsylvania was placed under statewide Code Red and then Code Purple (“very unhealthy”) air-quality alerts as smoke from enormous wildfires in Canada and Minnesota drifted south and settled over a wide swath of the eastern United States. It is a sign of things to come. Oil companies used to tell us that burning fossil fuels had little impact on warming the planet – just as cigarette companies once told us that smoking was not bad for our health. The industry claimed that increasingly extreme ...

Your choice

For you people who think that socialism will be a better life — so what are you living here for? You don’t think America is the best country to live in, there is nothing keeping you here, so why don’t you just pack up and leave? As the old saying goes, you’ll be killing two birds with one stone. You’ll get to live under socialism in another country and we’ll be rid of you. If socialism is so great, then why isn’t there a long line of Americans standing in line to go to China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba and Iran? These socialist, communist and Muslim countries will tell you ...