The left-wing media lies add up
Politics
September 10, 2024
The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left-wing and its media. The 2016 presidential campaign will be long remembered for the false allegation that Donald Trump colluded w...
Captains courageous
Politics
September 10, 2024
We live in an age of anxiety, full of anger and depression. The presidential candidates are clearly playing on both emotional states. There’s need for healing. But there is also an invitation for cour...
Politics
September 9, 2024
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG, JILL COLVIN and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MOSINEE, Wis. (AP) — With just days to go before his first and likely only debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former Preside...
Politics
September 9, 2024
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Lives lost are sacrifice to the worship of firearms
Politics
September 9, 2024
The school year has begun. My teenager trots off to class in a school uniform, backpack stuffed full, water bottle filled. Early morning and afternoon traffic serve as reminders of the school calendar...
Politics
September 6, 2024
IF YOU CHECK YOUR CUPBOARD, more than likely you’ll have dinnerware and bakeware with the Pyrex, CorningWare and Corelle brand labels — three brands developed by Corning Glass Works during the 20th ce...
Canceling the Trump show
Politics
September 6, 2024
More than it’s anything else, an American presidential election is a TV series. And all the available evidence appears to show that the nation is ready to change the channel. To put it bluntly, The Tr...
Another lie: Biden is deporting more illegals than Trump
Politics
September 5, 2024
The mainstream media has always engaged in mass lying about immigration, but they’re really going the extra mile this election cycle. Lie No. 1 is the toughness of the “bipartisan” border bill, covere...
Politics
September 5, 2024
SO DONALD TRUMP HAS HAD HIS FUN with those AI-generated images of crowds of Taylor Swift fans in “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts, which reportedly sparked a backlash among actual Swifties. And who didn’...
Politics
September 4, 2024
HOW HARD IS IT TO REPORT suspected sexual abuse of a minor? In recent years, we have been buried under an absolute avalanche of proof that children have been sexually abused, if not outright raped, by...
Politics
September 4, 2024
By STEVE PEOPLES, THOMAS BEAUMONT AND AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — After a summer of historic tumult, the path to the presidency for both Kamala Harris and Donald Tru...
Harris, Trump, and Arlington cemetery
Politics
September 4, 2024
It looks like the fight between the Harris and Trump campaigns over former President Donald Trump‘s appearance at Arlington National Cemetery is intensifying, not diminishing. Vice President Kamala Ha...
Politics
September 3, 2024
LAST WEDNESDAY, NIPPON STEEL made a promise. The Japanese giant would invest “no less than $1 billion” into the U.S. Steel operations in the Greater Pittsburgh area. “Nippon Steel believes that a tran...
New rules for radicals: How to reinvent Harris
Politics
September 3, 2024
How do accomplished radicals elect a mediocre far-left presidential candidate? The task might at first seem impossible. Kamala Harris is currently a radical incumbent vice president. For more than thr...
Don’t forget the Iraqi Christians
Politics
September 3, 2024
“ Have mercy on us — and ISIS.” Shortly after the mass killing of Christians by that terrorist group in Iraq 10 years ago, a young women born in a refugee camp lead an arena of young people in prayer....
Politics
August 31, 2024
(Editor’s note: The following is an updated version of our annual Labor Day editorial.) ON MONDAY, WE SALUTE THE WORKER. When it comes to the reasons for Monday’s Labor Day holiday, the U.S. Departmen...
Politics
August 31, 2024
To the Editor: I am a 28-year-old Trump supporter from Rostraver. I have been a loyal follower of Donald Trump from the moment he came down the golden escalator in 2015. Although I have immense respec...