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Don’t let the war on woke lull all Americans to sleep

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History is written to be argued about, I have often said. Recent efforts by the Trump administration’s culture war have offered numerous examples. In recent days, we have seen Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a break from the administration’s war against Iran, announce the reinstallation of a Confederate memorial that had been removed from Arlington National Cemetery in 2023. History buffs may recall that the sculpture had been removed as part of a congressionally mandated effort to rid military bases and sites of Confederate names and images. If you are one of those ...

Too many Americans wrongly confuse liberty with license

Editorials

The Founding Fathers who fought for liberty wouldn’t recognize how people define the word today. A recently released survey from the Indispensable Institute for Family Studies shows vice has a vice grip on young men. Among men 18 to 29 years old, 27% view pornography daily and another 16% do so several times a week. Young men who view pornography multiple times a day are about twice as likely to be lonely and depressed. It’s not just young men doing things that would have been unimaginable a few decades ago. Public libraries host drag queen story hours, exposing little children ...

Husted campaign fires yet another problematic staffer

Editorials

Plenty of politicians are getting caught saying the quiet part out loud these days, but few have been as bold as Stephen Woytek, political director for U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio. Woytek was rightly fired by Husted after discovery of social media activity that at best indicates a person so out of touch he should not be working on Husted’s campaign. At one point, he was using as his Facebook profile picture a photograph of soldiers from the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. That would be Hitler’s personal bodyguard. Woytek’s social media accounts also featured photos of him ...

Remembering how leftists pounced on unity of Sept. 11

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Not every American president has sounded the right notes for our national pain after the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Twelve days after Hamas unleashed its mass murder in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, President Joe Biden suggested that 9/11 was all about the Arabs and the Muslims. “I know many of you in the Muslim American community or the Arab American community, the Palestinian American community, and so many others are outraged and hurting, saying to yourselves, ‘Here we go again,’ with Islamophobia and distrust we saw after 9/11,” Biden declared. He said after 9/11, ...

Fetterman support of Israel makes him a target for Dems

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The price of dissenting from orthodoxy in Washington these days is high — if you’re a Democrat. If you’re a Republican who supports higher taxes or Big Labor, you’re hailed as a free-thinker. But a Democrat who dissents on Israel becomes Public Enemy No. 2 after Donald Trump. That’s the treatment now descending on Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, as former aides and fellow Democrats feed stories intended to drive him from the Senate. Sources who decline to be identified say he neglects semiofficial duties such as constituent meetings, committee hearings and public funerals, ...

OneOhio awards help Valley agencies protect, save lives

Editorials

With another school year underway, the Mahoning Valley feels a renewed sense of possibility. Students are back in classrooms, families are settling into their workday routines, and communities are looking ahead. But for too many parents, grandparents, siblings, friends and neighbors, the sense of renewal that comes each autumn also brings a quiet heartache, because it reminds them of individuals young and old who should be celebrating next steps in life but whose futures were instead cut short by substance use disorder. These deaths and their impact on the community are why my service ...