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Opinion

End of a scam

Columns

How appropriate that the Biden presidency is ending with an act of self-dealing that he and his allies insisted, with great righteousness, would never happen. Joe Biden was always a scam, and his pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, is just the latest evidence. No one should have believed ...

Don’t want green energy jobs? We’ll take them

Columns

“Some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that’s underway in America, but nobody — nobody — can reverse it. Nobody. Not when so many people, regardless of party or politics, are enjoying its benefits.” Still-President Joe Biden said that on a recent visit to Brazil. ...

No easy answers when it comes to social media

Editorial

Is social media harmful to our youth? Australia sure seems to think so. It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids ...

Constitutional conundrum

Letters To The Editor

To The Journal editor: When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade and returned the issue of abortion to the states, Donald Trump claimed that the American people wanted this as a solution. The U.S. Constitution says in Article IV, Section 2: “The Citizens of each state shall be ...

Why American media and its critics won’t stop telling same lie

Columns

The American media has a bootleggers-and-Baptists problem. “Bootleggers and Baptists” is one of the most useful concepts in understanding how economic regulation works in the real world. Coined by economist Bruce Yandle, the term describes how groups that are ostensibly opposed to each ...

Christmas is coming but still time to shop local merchants

Editorial

Christmas is about three weeks away and we know there are quite a few people who haven’t yet finished checking off all the names on their holiday shopping lists. We encourage everyone to consider buying local rather than from a faraway online e-shop with express shipping. Those dollars ...