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GOP’s Medicaid reforms are reasonable

GOP’s Medicaid reforms are reasonable

GOP’s Medicaid reforms are reasonable

Republicans need to explain the Medicaid reforms in President Donald Trump’s big, beautiful bill, not run away from them.Early Thursday morning, May 22, House Republicans passed their version of Trump’s big, beautiful bill.

Bullying in our small town

There was a time when bullies were few and far between. Now it seems the opposite is true.My oldest child was bullied so bad during her school days from kindergarten to high school, the bullies changed her personality.
JOSH HAMMER

JOSH HAMMER

The evils of left-wing political violence

Actions, we know, have consequences.And a committed Marxist’s coldblooded murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night was the inevitable consequence of a conscientious, years-long campaign to dehumanize Jews and otherize all supporters of the world’s only Jewish state.
TERENCE P. JEFFREY

TERENCE P. JEFFREY

One big ugly federal debt

On Jan. 2, 2024, House Speaker Mike Johnson posted a warning on X. “The national debt is the greatest threat to America’s national security, and the current addiction to reckless spending cannot be sustained,” he said.
LAURA HOLLIS

LAURA HOLLIS

Antinatalism: the latest destructive ideology

Afertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, was severely damaged by a car bomb last week, in what authorities are calling a deliberate terrorist attack. News reports attributed the bombing to Guy Edward Bartkus, an emotionally troubled 25-year-old who appears to have been killed in the blast.
Qatari jets and golden threads

Qatari jets and golden threads

Qatari jets and golden threads

Last week, controversy emerged when President Donald Trump announced that the Emirate of Qatar had offered him a gift: a $400 million jet, a modernized “flying palace” complete with all the fixings.

The height of hypocrisy

From what is heard on the “news,” there are people today who apparently think that transgender surgery on a child, and/or a teenager, is OK, and they would readily advocate it. However, I would think that no grown man would ever want emasculation for himself, but some with transgender ideas might!