Jim de Bree | Trump’s Tax Returns Should Not Be Public
January 5, 2023
Although the House Ways & Means Committee has the right to review Trump’s tax returns, those returns should not be released to the public. Doing so is yet another unfortunate
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Arthur Saginian | This Is How He Avoids Sarcasm?
January 5, 2023
Re: Letters, Paul Butler, Nov. 23: Good morning, Mr. Butler, and thank you for your effort to clarify things for me. I feel that your heart is in the right
Thomas Oatway | Unworthy of Constitutional Protection
January 5, 2023
I read your editorial (Dec. 10) in opposition to the Assembly Bill 2098 legislative initiative. You suggested that the science of the coronavirus treatment and protective health measures were evolving
Gary Horton | What Ever Happened to Fran?
January 4, 2023
Fran was a blinding 1,000-watt lightbulb in a candelabra of 50-watters. In any crowd she stood out very bright, distinguished, and unavoidably fashionable. Fran dressed to the nines to be
Rob Kerchner | Patting Themselves on the Back
January 4, 2023
From China to Iran, citizens are marching for freedom in places where Donald Trump opposed — and Barack Obama and Joe Biden assisted — their repressive governments. But Orange Man
Bob Comer | A Hero in Our Midst
January 4, 2023
We really do have one! He is Kevin MacDonald. He is the director of Bella Vida, our senior center. What a blessing to all of us seniors. For instance, my
Jonathan Kraut | Legislation Because of January 6
January 3, 2023
I wish everyone a very prosperous and healthy new year. Some good news for us so far: Gas prices have dropped to below pre-pandemic lows, inflation is cooling off
Dick Cesaroni | Take Back Our Government
January 3, 2023
Recently, no for some time now, several Republican representatives have been leaning or going to the dark side (Democrat side of the aisle). Those 18 traitors are: Roy Blunt of
David Hegg | A Pair of Paradoxes for 2023
January 1, 2023
During one of our many family times enjoyed in Christmas seasons of the past, my eldest daughter, now a happily married woman and mother of two, expressed a very thoughtful
Rick Barker | Facts Are Troublesome
January 1, 2023
It would appear that some people writing articles on here are having a very hard time separating facts from fiction because the facts just don’t fit their preconceived and VERY
Our View | A Lump of Coal from Congress
December 31, 2022
What’s 4,155 pages long and spends $1.7 trillion of your money? Yes, it’s the newly enacted omnibus spending bill, passed last week just before Christmas when those who were there
Jason Gibbs | The Holidays and Priorities: A Primer
December 31, 2022
The holidays have always been a special time. Homes adorned with flickering lights, some with a simple strand of white across the front eaves and an elegant wreath depicting the
John Boston | My New Year’s Resolutions for Just Tomorrow
December 30, 2022
I have to admit. I’m not at all sad to say, “Kiss my rural dusty butt to 2022 and don’t let the screen door catch you on the Achilles tendon on
Rick Barker | On Political Campaigns
December 30, 2022
In re: Steve Lunetta, “Campaign Ad Awards,” Parts 1 and 2 (Nov. 24 and Dec. 15): I’m sure that Mr. Lunetta knows this as he is very well educated in
Rob Kerchner | Virtue Signaling Now Reigns
December 29, 2022
It’s fascinating how leftist secularism has substituted virtue signaling for godly virtue. Indeed, there is as much thirst for modern genuflections and catechisms as there ever was for medieval ones.
Arthur Saginian | Just a Case of Chimp DNA
December 29, 2022
In his column (Nov. 20), Pastor David Hegg once again threw out the bait, and I simply could not resist biting. Call it a weakness. He opened with his now
Ronald Perry | Reparations and the Taxpayer
December 28, 2022
Efforts in California to advance Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Reparations Task Force continued this month with one activist calling for $350,000 to be given to every eligible Black person in
Joshua Heath | How Democrats Can Reclaim God
December 27, 2022
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche correctly described our 2,000-year Christian era as a time of “anti-nature,” in which humanity tamed the normal savageness of reality by emphasizing an ethic of
Lois Eisenberg | Jan. 6 Committee Sent Lois a Gift
December 27, 2022
Job well done by the Jan. 6 committee, who laid out a “Road Map to Justice” in proving what a criminal Donald Trump really is. The Jan. 6 committee showed
Thomas Oatway | Another Virus Spreading?
December 27, 2022
This is getting to be a bad habit. Again I feel compelled to remind folks that their irresponsibility on vaccinations is costing lives, and filling up emergency rooms and hospitals.