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Chaos is the theme

Lassie MacDonald State College The fact is, there is no true leadership in the Trump Administration or the Republican Congress. Trump is an amoral narcissist who has surrounded himself with sycophants. As with all narcissists, he has no thoughts of leadership for the good of the nation, only thoughts of glorifying and promoting his own image and desires. The current sycophantic Republican Congress is beholden to Donald Trump, having willingly ceded significant constitutional powers to the Trump administration, eroding Congress’s influence and authority at the expense of the ...

Subversion from within

Arthur Keller Beavertown The Trump administration has secured the release of 47 detained Americans abroad. US Retail Gas Price, as of June 9, reports that gas prices are down by 11% compared to last year. Mississippi is paying less than $3 per gallon. NerdWallet, as of June 12, states the unemployment rate is 4.2%, which is lower than the long-standing average of 5.67%. The stock market is experiencing a boom, with indices like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq showing significant gains. Over the past month, the stock market index has climbed 3.05% and is up 12.03% compared to the same time ...

Out of touch with reality

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross America is currently biting the dust with strife like we have not seen since the Civil War. Meanwhile, the good guys are standing on the sidelines with their hands in their pockets. Corporate America just keeps cranking out absurdly out-of-touch commercials where everybody is all smiling, singing, and dancing. Churches keep on inviting people to believe in the afterlife, ignoring what is going on in this life. I thought corporate capitalism was supposed to solve all our problems with its trickle-down economics. I thought Jesus was the ...

Who is Rep Thompson actually representing?

Ron Williams Pennsylvania Furnace Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district, our district, is one very large and very rural district. Its elected representative is Glen GT Thompson. Over 200,000 of his constituents are currently receiving Medicaid benefits in this district. That appeared to be of little concern to Rep Thompson, however, when he voted for Trump’s billionaire tax cut bill. The bill is expected to cause over 10 million people to lose their Medicaid coverage. How many of our family members, friends and neighbors will be among them? To add insult to injury, the ...

Republican spending bill

George Polycranos Port Matilda Many Americans make hard budgeting decisions every day understanding that living on credit while spending more than you earn is simply not sustainable. So why are Congressional Republicans OK with a spending bill that explodes our nation’s already staggering $32.2 trillion national debt? Taxpayers are currently spending more each year on interest than for our national defense. Economists warn that increasing the national debt at this time will jeopardize our nation’s ability to respond to real future crises such as wars, pandemics, and natural ...

At it again…

Sam Stea Cogan Station Not only does Trump want to destroy Harvard, the National Institute of Health and NATO, he’s gone after Tesla, one of the greatest American companies ever founded. Is this the “Golden Age” or just plain stupidity? Whatever it is, China and Russia couldn’t be more pleased.