Sam Stea Cogan Station Worse than lying, fraud and slander is betrayal. There was no greater single act of betrayal to our Nation, the Oath of Office of the presidency and our collective values than the attack on our nation’s capital on Jan. 6, 2021. The sooner we come to this realization, the safer our sacred republic will be. Remember the Sixth, and long live the Republic!
Tim Mannello Williamsport Not a day goes by that Republicans don’t ask the question: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Without explanation or evidence, they invariably answer their own question by saying: “Of course not.” Asking “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” is ambiguous. What does “better off” mean? Financially? Emotionally? Educationally? Physically? Relationally? Environmentally? “Whateverly?” And who is the “you” they are asking? All Americans? Some Americans? Which Americans? It is misleading ...
Harry Gural Lewisburg Even Donald Trump’s most diehard supporters must admit that he’s not the man he was in 2016. At 78 years old, he now rambles incoherently, loses his train of thought and forgets the most basic facts. Trump refers to his zigzag speaking style as “the weave,” as if he does complex mental gymnastics and miraculously lands on his feet. But many of his comments are bizarre. For example, he frequently tells audiences he would rather die by electrocution than be eaten by a shark. He also makes up things out of whole cloth. Fact checkers found that Trump ...
Catherine Alloway Port Matilda Trump’s historically unpopular running mate, J.D. Vance, is offering storytime sessions! Not for preschoolers, but for adults. Vance has blatantly stated that creating “stories,” is an acceptable way to focus media attention on a problem. Alas, his storytimes are all fiction, including problems that don’t even exist! These are not your typical tales with happy endings. Vance and Trump have spread gross falsehoods about the legal immigrants living, working and contributing to Springfield, Ohio. Immigrants and non-immigrants alike have had to ...
Mary Bruce State College Who is Republican Congressman Glenn Thompson trying to kid? In a recent campaign mailing Thompson says he’s “Standing up for Science.” That’s ridiculous. For more than 120 years, scientists have known that burning fossil fuels, and adding the resulting CO2 to the atmosphere, would lead to warming. The Swedish scientist who first discovered this went on to win a Nobel Prize. Since then, scientists have predicted that this warming would lead to melting glaciers, sea-level rise, dangerous heatwaves, crop-killing droughts, stronger storms, and ...
Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross In the 1840s, Irish Catholics immigrated to America in huge numbers and provoked a secret protest movement known as the Know Nothing Party, founded in 1844 as a precursor to the eventual Republican party. Know Nothings told of a conspiracy by Catholics to overthrow Protestant-based American government. This was an early version of today’s Republican claim that Hispanic Catholic immigrants will kick whites and other native-born Americans out of jobs and power in America. MAGA, or Know Nothing II, is really a Make America Hate Again party, as ...