Editorial
Off The Publisher’s Desk – 4-24-2019
I question giving 16-year-olds the right to vote I have to question the leaders in the Democratic Party that want to lower the voting age to sixteen. I tried to remember what I was thinking about when I was sixteen. I think it was V-8 engines and smoking tires. I remember that we were influenced…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 4-17-2019
Democrats want illegals to vote! How times have changed. Long before Donald Trump was a candidate for president, the Democrat leaders were all for border security. President Clinton pushed for stronger measures along the southern border. He even sought to punish companies that hired illegal laborers over American citizens. According to the Bearded Patriot; “All…
Read MoreOff The Publisher’s Desk – 4-10-2019
We need new laws to control immigration! We need to address our federal laws regarding immigration. If you spend any time watching TV news you will see that Democratic members of Congress spend more time trying to “GET TRUMP” than they do addressing the work that needs to be done, not only on immigration, but…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 4-3-2019
The long awaited Mueller Report Finally after some 22 months the Mueller report is in the hands of the Attorney General, who sent a four-page summary to Congress. The report apparently clears the Trump campaign of any wrong doing in the Russia investigation. But Congress is hammering that they have not been granted access to…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 3-27-2019
How old is too old to be president? Richard Cohen writes in the Washington Post, “The joke among people my age is that every dinner party starts with an organ recital: Who’s lost a gall bladder, got a new kidney or maybe just replaced a knee? What’s the pain of the day, and who sleeps…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 3-20-2019
Last week I was enjoying lunch at Bonnie’s Café in downtown Glenwood City and found a National Geographic Magazine (June 2018 issue) there and I picked it up and paged through it and found an article with the heading, “We Made Plastic, We Depend on it, Now We are Drowning in it.” I would like…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 3-6-2019
What has come to my attention this week! Bill Bennett, former Secretary of Education under President Reagan and who held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H. W. Bush told Fox News Monday that smoking marijuana lowers your IQ. He noted that teens smoking marijuana for a week could lower…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 2-27-2019
They hate you if you disagree with them I listened to a clip last week of California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ tirade against President Trump. She said, “If you are a supporter of President Trump you are un-American.” How many times over the past few years is it that members of the left wing of…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 2-20-2019
A good campaign slogan! “Change” How many times has a presidential candidate, or for the matter, a candidate for governor, campaigned using the slogan with the word “change” in it? Obama’s “Change, we can believe in” and the change we got, but was it something that we really wanted? As the years pass in my…
Read MoreOff The Editor’s Desk – 2-13-2019
If you like it, you won’t get to keep it! Remember a few years ago Congress passed a law that mandated that car companies manufacture cars that got great gas mileage. Now would you say that, that was not a good thing? But what happened? Those nice big cars became just a cracker box that…
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