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The real stink of Musk

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Elon Musk will be spending $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to The New York Times. Musk’s spending is set to begin next month, targeting Senate races in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan and Ohio, and potentially North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas. Musk will also spend in House races in states including California, Wisconsin, and Washington. The money won’t be spent only on TV advertising. Musk’s “America PAC” is lining up firms that focus on knocking on voters’ doors. Fake grassroots. But Musk’s money ...

The Iran war is eating Trump’s presidency

Editorials

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump’s presidency. We’ve seen a second term of a Republican administration go this way before. There are distinct echoes of George W. Bush’s Iraq War — the conflict that Trump has long excoriated — in the president’s predicament. Now, the Iran war is different from Iraq. There is no ground invasion, no regime change, no occupation, no counterinsurgency. The casualties aren’t close to the same scale, and Donald Trump has been fighting Iran for ...

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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

Editorials

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

Editorials

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, ...