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Beyond outrageous

While Trump is hosting a sumptuous dinner party at Mar-a-Lago for his wealthy friends, 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP will go hungry because Trump refuses to release funds that are available. During the shutdown, he refused to talk to Democrats who wished to protect SNAP and the tax incentives under Obamacare, without which 7.3 million Americans will see their health insurance costs rise significantly. He already took money away from programs benefiting 7.5 million disabled children when he gutted the Department of Education. Soon many Americans will go hungry while Trump is ...

Common sense

Thomas Paine served the Revolutionary Founders and Colonial Citizens well as they went about throwing off an autocrat. Citizens should read Common Sense and the Crisis Papers to remind themselves what Colonists had in mind as they put their lives and fortunes on the line for Liberty. Ultimately, free speech, free press, the right to assemble, due process under law and checks and balances in government were the fundamentals in their view of the future for All People. Also, among those expectations, the right to pursue happiness, unfettered by systemic constraints. Paine said, ...

Hard time sleeping

I sure am having a hard time sleeping. I can hear my grandfather James H. Dewar, his brother Stephen A. Dewar from WWI, my father James L. Dewar WWII, my brother James M. Dewar all rolling over in their graves with New York City voting for a communist to be the NYC mayor. STEPHEN DEWAR Montoursville Submitted byVirtual Newsroom

Overwhelming Judeo-Christian heritage

Kudos to Dr. Timothy Pagana for telling the truth regarding the contribution of many Christian forefathers at the time of our great Nation’s birth. (Sun-Gazette Wednesday, November 12, 2025, page A4). In his opinion article, “We cut God from governance to our peril,” he succinctly rebuffs the untruth that modern secularists, among them several local and syndicated progressive blowhards, attempt to lead us to believe in their oft opinionated political diatribes regarding the nonsense of their very deceitful contemporary historical revision. Despite the vital and necessary role ...

Nothing that challenges thesis

In a recent article Dr. Timothy Pagana said: “I would like to challenge Tim Mannello’s statement about the Constitution, the Bible and Christian nationalism.” The statement I made can be summarized in this way: “The Founding Fathers sought to prevent the establishment of a state religion that could lead to persecution and civil unrest. Their primary concern was to forge a republic with religious freedom, rather than religious uniformity. The United States was not founded as a Christian nation, but rather as a secular republic that guarantees religious freedom to all its ...

Making excuses

Remember when republicans were outrage that boys and young men were groomed by pedophiles. Now you have the Epstein files fight has some on the right questioning whether or not if Epstein is a pedophile of young girls and women, he groomed them. The reasoning is they have gone through puberty. No, it is just the old double standard. Just another example of republicans in power not valuing women and girls in our country. I have no love for the Republican party, but I applaud Representative Massie and Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene for their standing up for the victims of Epstein. ...