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Republicans, Democrats must control radicals in their parties

It’s starting to sound like we’re in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. For those of you who forgot, the Spanish Civil War was the great prequel to World War II, in which the combatants were proxies for the Communists and the Fascists. Stalin’s Soviet Union supported the former, Hitler’s Germany aided the latter. President Trump and the GOP have decided to run against “Communism” in the coming midterms. In his Fourth of July speech, Trump referenced the Communists in our midst nearly a dozen times. “Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the ...

Democrats need to take the car keys away from Bernie

The Platner fiasco has unleashed something of a brawl in the Democratic Party over how the sexting candidate with a Nazi tattoo came to be their rival to Susan Collins, now in her fifth term as Republican senator from Maine. Bernie Sanders thought his socialists could pass off blue-collar impersonator Graham Platner — a product of the elite Hotchkiss prep school — as a hard-working “oysterman.” Sanders had been waving off concerns about the guy. Then suddenly, he called on Platner to leave the campaign. Two problems with Bernie’s new directive: One, Sanders is why ...

Give generously to support our volunteer fire departments

We are deep into the season of ice cream social fundraisers, many of which benefit our volunteer fire departments. It can be easy to overlook how important these annual efforts are in supporting those who keep so many of us safe. More than 90% of fire departments in West Virginia are considered volunteer. Approximately 70% in Ohio are volunteer departments. Locally, Mahoning and Trumbull counties feature a mix of fire departments made up of paid firefighters and volunteer personnel. Most often, the volunteer outfits are in smaller townships and villages. Those who work as volunteers ...

New York mayor’s rant on US should fall on deaf ears

Zohran Mamdani, New York’s self-described socialist mayor, could not resist using the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration to trash the very country that he and his parents voluntarily sought out. As is his custom, Mamdani speaks in stereotypes and generalities, offering few if any examples, all laced with his accustomed unctuous hypocrisy. Let’s deconstruct his incoherent July 4 riff: “America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How ...

Savor a nice slice of American pie at Trumbull County Fair

Few events in this great nation of ours are rooted so deeply in good old-fashioned American pride than the county fair. County fairs are considered a quintessential slice of Americana because they preserve the agricultural, community, and entrepreneurial heritage of our republic. As our ...