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Trump loves the military and America

Arthur Keller Beavertown I asked myself, why were the New York Military Academy cadets at President Trump’s inauguration? So, I did a little digging. Pres. Trump attended the New York Military Academy junior/senior high school reaching the rank of Captain, lettering in a variety of sports (baseball, football, soccer), and was an Honor Cadet for four years. Perhaps this is where his love for the military began. The Washington Post stated Trump’s best sport was baseball, a passion that inspired him at 12. He was a right-handed power hitter by sixth grade, not inclined to bunt, but ...

No kings

Willa Adams Boalsburg Straight from our Declaration of Independence, the founders of the United States declared independence from England’s King George III for, among other things, the following reasons: “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good” “He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.” “He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these ...

Birds of a feather

Mary Bruce Serene State College HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has vowed to find the cause of autism by September 2025. To lead this ambitious endeavor, Kennedy hired David Geier, who has no medical license or scientific training. Unfortunately for the American public, Mr. Geier has a track record of harming children and manipulating data. David’s father, Dr. Mark Geier, claimed that injections of Lupron, a testosterone-suppressant approved for prostate cancer and ovarian fibroids, was a “miracle drug” for children with autism. The Cleveland Clinic decried the quack ...

From democracy to dictatorship

Tim Mannello Williamsport It is the Supreme Court of the United States, not the President of the United States, that determines the meaning of the Constitution and the law for EVERYONE, including the President and the Executive Branch. On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, U. S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that only the “President and the Attorney General shall provide authoritative interpretations of the law for the executive branch.” If the Supreme Court and we the people allow this executive order to become the law of the land, our country’s democracy ...

Biden hindsight

Jim Newton Itasca My friends who voted for former President Joe Biden are frustratingly stuck between his presidential accomplishments, his shoot-himself-in-foot moments since leaving office and his recent cancer diagnosis. Biden’s administration gave us the CHIPS Act to bolster’s America’s semiconductor manufacturing and research, the Inflation Reduction Act and a bi-partisan Infrastructure Law. That’s a short list, but safe roads and bridges come in handy. They benefit everyone. I once handed an attendant my change, or threw it into a toll basket. No one ever asked me who ...

Give us your young and aspiring

Tim Cowan Julian Students with disparate backgrounds, cultures and interpretations of our shared Earth, it will be your conversations, friendships and conflicts that set the stage for a more inclusive future. It will be the ways that you influence the developing views of the world community and how you are influenced by the voices of your peers in These United States of America. The people of this nation welcome you and yearn for that More Perfect Union, which you have become a part of. Whether you return to your nation of origin or remain to participate in this nation’s future, ...