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First Amendment under attack

The Justice Department, under the President’s orders, is investigating all groups they view as extremist, particularly what they call Antifa. They continue to confuse an ideology with a physical group. “Antifa” stands for antifascist, it is not an organization. The administration therefore must be openly saying they are pro-fascist. That is the only conclusion one can arrive at. The Attorney General’s recent memo ordering US law enforcement to investigate “extremist groups” raises the false specter of left-wing political violence (with none to point to) as an excuse to ...

Is America doomed?

For quite awhile people have wondered if the United States is turning into a third-world country. They can quit wondering. I believe the time has come. The United States is being overrun by foreign and home-grown socialists wanting to destroy America with Communist ideology. This socialist plague is spreading from coast to coast. Just look at New York City and Seattle, Washington. Who are the America-haters voting for these people? It has been proven that socialism destroys. To add insult to injury America and law-abiding citizens have endured four years of the corrupt Biden regime. ...

Save public media

For more than 60 years, WPSU has been a steady friend to Central and Northern Pennsylvania—bringing us trusted news, educational programs, and stories that reflect the heart of our region. It’s one of the few institutions that truly connects our rural and urban communities. WPSU is now at a crossroad. With Penn State ending its financial support, the station’s future—and our access to independent, local public media—is at risk. WPSU needs a new path forward. The good news is that one exists. WHYY has stepped up with a plan to acquire WPSU while keeping its identity local ...

When disasters strike

On a Friday in January, Theresa, a mom of three, returned home to find smoke pouring from her windows. Within minutes, everything she worked so hard for was gone. In the days that followed, volunteers from the American Red Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania — neighbors from our own community — comforted Theresa’s family and provided emergency lodging and recovery support. They continued checking in with Theresa for weeks, helping her family navigate their next steps. As Theresa said, “I’m not one to ask for help, but at that time, I needed it and I was glad there was someone ...

Christmas present

Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” in 1843. We all know the story of the old man visited by the three ghosts on Christmas Eve that reminds him, and us, of our humanity and responsibility to care for one another. For me as a kid, I was terrified by the movie version’s Ghost of Christmas Future, the hooded skeleton that brought Scrooge to witness his own death. I just watched the movie again; the 1951 version. This time it isn’t the specter of death that scared me. It is the starving children hiding under the kingly robe of the Ghost of Christmas Present. “This ...

Enough is enough

We live in a time of social unrest that has become so violent to the extent never before seen or experienced. The real question is why? We have several media avenues for getting our information. The mainstream media such as ABC, CBS and NBC, all of which has become known as part of the swamp, spreading falsehoods propagated by Democrats like Maxine Waters, Shifty Adam Schiff and the like. Next, we have social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and messaging, which have taken on the position of allowing trash to be published. Finally, we have Fox News and Fox Nation reporting the facts ...