Richard London State College In the 1894 novel “Trilby,” by George du Maurier, the character Svengali seduces and then dominates a naive young girl. Today the term Svengali refers to a person who, with evil intent, manipulates, dominates and controls others, influencing their thoughts ...

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross It is dumbfounding to me that mainstream media has almost uniformly reported that Stormy Daniels related “lurid” details in court about her sexual encounter with Trump. Lurid means “gruesome, horrible, revolting,” according to the dictionary. I ...

Bob Pryor Jersey Shore When our U.S. Senator, Bob Casey Jr. is asked the question, “Do you support President Biden's plan to fly Palestinian Gaza refugees to the United States?” and he refuses to answer, what would one think? Our representatives should always have the safety and ...

Patty Satalia State College Donald Trump, who has never met a “quid pro quo” he doesn’t like, hosted two-dozen oil company executives at Mar-a-Lago last month. According to The Washington Post, Trump pledged that if they’d fork over a billion dollars for his re-election campaign, ...

David B. Kyle New Columbia Numerous individuals have issued warnings about the potential dangers of a second Donald Trump presidency. Members of the news media, political analysts, and even reasonable Republicans have all been predicting how our country and democracy, and indeed the world, ...

Jerome Abbott Loganton On April 12, 1861, a United States military installation known as Fort Sumpter in Charleston, S.C., was successfully assaulted and destroyed. That insurrection lasted four years and cost about 600,000 lives. By April 15, 1865, Lincoln was dead and his re-election ...