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Certainly a Christian nation

Did the writer of the June 29 letter "Not a Christian nation" ever read any originally sourced material From our founding era, (letters, newspapers, documents, textbooks, etc.)? I hope not. If she did and continues to claim, we are not a Christian Nation, is dishonest. Otherwise, she is ignorant. She has ignored some proofs I laid out in previous letters. A careful reading of The Declaration of Independence references God a number of times. In fact, there are direct references: ‘The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God’; ‘Creator’; ‘Divine Providence’; ‘Supreme Judge of ...

Favoring developers over Pennsylvanians

I farm 84 acres in Gregg Township, Union County. I’ve never written to a newspaper before. Josh Shapiro is now telling Pennsylvanians that he’s the one putting up guardrails on data centers and Stacy Garrity is the one who changed her tune. Out here, we remember it differently. The governor put data centers on his permit fast-track program. Now he’s taken them off and says he’s protecting our communities. On the one thing we’ve been asking for — a pause — the record is clear. Stacy Garrity called for one months ago. The governor never has. His order this month stopped ...

Since when, America?

Since when has America attacked an enemy in the of midst of high-level negotiations, killing it its leader, negotiator and children? Since when has our leadership boasted of prosperity in stock-market gains, while simultaneously cutting food and energy assistance to the sick, elderly and poor by hundreds of billions of dollars-- and watching the middle class dissolve into debt and poverty? Since when have we accepted, even applauded, a president who uses his sacred office to rake in billions? Since when have we allowed our cancer research institutions to be stripped of funding? Since ...

Health care need not be so expensive

The White House brags about having the lowest drug prices in years. This is due to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act which allowed Medicare to negotiate prices and put a cap of $2000 on drug spending …..NOT ONE Republican voted for it, but that doesn’t stop them from taking credit. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, for which NO Democrat voted, will end the $2000 cap for seniors and stop Medicare from negotiating prices. Suddenly drug prices will rise, but not before the next election. Republicans are also cutting $911 billion from Medicaid over ten years by work requirements and ...

Fight the evil

The famous quote “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” Is very applicable in today’s world. If we Christians do not fight with all the resources we have, evil will triumph. Every one of us has some sort of talent to fight this evil. The church has been asleep for decades. Christians have been asleep at the wheel for decades. As a result, we now have unprecedented problems that are nearly impossible to solve. Our pastors need to preach at the pulpit about the reality of the evil we face as a nation and solutions. The pastors need to ...

Union County Communism

On 13 August 2026, Communism reared its ugly head in Union County, Pennsylvania, at the County Government Center. This occurred through a confluence of circumstances. Five weeks earlier, the Republican majority governing the County passed a policy prohibiting political speech and any partisan activities in the building. This in effect evicted the Democrats from a public forum they had used for twenty years. The Democrats and Republicans had used County facilities for a total of fifty years before the ban. But then, on August thirteenth, Republicans held a political rally in the ...