President Abraham Lincoln, 163 years ago and during a time of unimaginable division, proclaimed Thanksgiving to be a national holiday. His original proclamation explained the necessity of gratitude for our national character, at a time when Americans had great reason to forget the virtue’s ...
American industry has been getting a lot of hands-on direction from Democrats and Republicans for quite some time now. Every few years, someone looks at the underwhelming results of this economic maneuvering and insists that real “industrial policy” has never been tried. The truth is that the Left’s call for a “mission-oriented” state and the right’s yearning for a nationalist industrial revival may sound different, but they share the same conceit: that their own intentions can finally succeed where decades of intervention have failed. The latest person to revive this ...
Although I do believe that President Trump has done many good things to bring peace to many of the warring factions around the world and, in my opinion, has and is doing good things for the USA, I rarely, if ever, am in concert with liberal views and comments. Now, I may have to boil my lips and burn these typing fingers when I say that I agree with the general liberal opinion that President Trump has presented a so-called peace plan that is nothing more than a Putin generated blue print for illegally gaining not only ground now held by Russian forces, but also for Ukraine to ...
We have concerns about the 2026 budget proposed for the City of Williamsport. Of course, we are concerned about any tax increase. Increasing the millage rate will make the city less appealing to new businesses and new families and will place a greater strain on the hard-working families and ...
A lot of Democrats are upset with the eight Democratic senators who voted to re-open the government. They believe they “caved” on health insurance premium assistance for the needy. But let’s face it. Congressional Republicans, not to mention Trump, would never have gone along with healthcare premium assistance. The only thing they want to do with the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also called “Obamacare”) is repeal it. Unfortunately they have nothing with which to replace it. Republicans have proven that they simply do not care about the needy. They have consistently voted against ...
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, ...
