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Why do we see endless outrage directed at immigrants from Haiti, Venezuela and Somalia, while Ukrainians get a free pass? Is it really that simple — they just happen to be white and Christian? Besides, who do they expect to rebuild and fix that country after the war when Ukraine is left as a deserted island? — Salem At the point when a million-dollar mistake was made and checks started to bounce, Ciccone should have been fired. It’s time for him to resign. Taxpayers deserve more than incompetence. — Niles I am absolutely appalled by the new ultimatum issued to residents at ...

Islamists are playing the long game in American politics

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This week, primary voters in Michigan went to the polls to decide which candidate will represent their party in the fight to replace the outgoing Sen. Gary Peters. For Democrats, it will be Abdul El-Sayed. Unsurprisingly, much of the focus when it comes to El-Sayed rests not on his socialist ideology, or if he’s actually a doctor, or even his recent glow-up, but that he’s an anti-Semite. Given that his supporters include self-hating Jew Sen. Bernie Sanders, “not an expert on geopolitics” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and professional Jew-hater Linda Sarsour, it’s hardly ...

Another day, another ‘deal’ with Iran

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A friend quipped the other day that President Trump truly deserves the Nobel Peace Prize because he has already ended the Iran war eight times. Will the ninth time be the charm after his latest decision to call off a military escalation in search of a deal with the revolutionary regime? “We have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to,” Trump posted at 10:05 p.m. on Saturday. He added that this includes “Immediate, Complete, and Total” opening of the Strait of Hormuz and an end to ...

Mahoning clerk of courts attracts controversy

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It’s almost as if there’s a magnetic force attracting Mahoning County Clerk of Courts Michael Ciccone to controversy. The remarkable thing is Ciccone has been in office for only about 19 months. Ciccone first garnered attention back in December 2023 when he served as the attorney for 28 voters of Jennifer Ciccone who contested the results of the Struthers Municipal Court election that she lost by 10.28%. Michael Ciccone’s complaint claimed, without providing details, that there was massive fraud in that race that James Melone convincingly won. A week after filing the lawsuit, ...

Why are Muslim American politicians uniformly Democrats?

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Muslim Americans are increasingly getting involved in American politics. Most prominent are members of Congress Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Andre Carson (D-Ind.), and Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.). Most prominent among several mayors is Democrat Zohran Mamdani in New York City. Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, now running for the Senate seat in Michigan, could become the first Muslim in the U.S. Senate. A question that comes to mind is: Why are these Muslim American politicians uniformly Democrats? They generally hold up their Muslim religion as a prominent part of ...

Bringing Richard Nixon back home

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SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — On an August day way back when in 1974, the president of the United States resigned, and my mother disappeared. She didn’t take any of us kids with her and didn’t say where she was going. But she was gone for a couple hours. The day that Richard Nixon finally faced mounting public pressure against him for his Watergate burglary coverup and conduct of the Vietnam War came at great cost to the country. Several Republican senators went to the White House and told him the truth: They would no longer support him, and he had to go or else be forced from office. ...