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Fear

When I was attending Lycoming College shortly after the end of the Vietnam war, Dr. Michael Roskin (the best lecturing professor ever!) taught a political science course there on why nations go to war. While examining the Vietnam War one day, the topic of the War Powers Act came up. Dr. Roskin stated he thought this topic was important enough to throw out his planned lesson for that day and proceeded to spell out for the class how liberal zeal to rein in the power of the president and prevent another Vietnam had actually strengthened that power and abilty of the office to do so. As a ...

About time

Before any of the Democrats’ crocodile tears or hateful responses to the military action taken by President Trump and Israel to destroy the evil empire of Iran start overflowing the Letter to the Editor inbox, I would like to comment about the situation. It seems that all Democrats, save one, are adamantly against any actions taken by President Trump that would ensure the safety of all Americans, including Democrats. They jump on their soap box of hatred towards this man with their lies and mis-statements. Especially guilty are those of a certain faith who do not have the best ...

Protect elections

Trump bragged about being a peace keeper; he wanted the Nobel Peace Prize. What happened? Iran posed no threat to Americans; yet we attacked them for no clear reason. Nothing justifies our killing over 800 Iraqi civilians, including nearly 150 innocent school girls, as young as 12. Hours before our attack, the foreign minister of Oman revealed concessions Iranians had made in negotiations: not just agreeing to not stockpile uranium, making it impossible to build a bomb, but diluting the uranium it currently holds and agreeing to full verification by International Atomic Energy Agency ...

Fun observations

Has anyone noticed that Republicans are scrambling to shore up support for Republican candidates, even the local Republicans are writing in warning against voting for Democrats. We haven’t even voted yet for candidates and they are already stomping. Heck even one writer praised how good the economy is, seriously he did claim he knows some goods are still high but all in all the economy is great. He was voicing how bad prices were under Biden, yet he is using the same measures that Joe Biden used when he was President to say the economy is strong. I would like to point out that ...

Stolen election?

President Donald Trump has said he wants to take charge of elections throughout the United States. There is nothing in our Constitution, or any law passed in the 250 year history of our country, that permits him to do this. The last person who supposedly said “L’Etat c’est moi” (“The State is me”) was King Louis XIV of France in 1655. The Constitution specifically gives the power to regulate elections to the states. Anyone can read this in Article I, Section 4. Congress has passed laws giving the president special powers in a national emergency, but nothing in those laws ...

Deer season

I read with interest an article in the Outdoor section of the Sun-Gazette regarding the introduction of a bill by a couple of local legislators to move the opening day of firearm deer season back to the traditional Monday after Thanksgiving. I whole heartedly support this and was disappointed in the PGC when it recently rejected the idea. The PGC has consistently touted the benefits of the recent move to a Saturday opener on many occasions during speaking engagements and written publications like the Pennsylvania Game News. For the life of me I don’t know where or how they got the ...