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Appropriately Honoring Donald Trump’s Memory

To the Reader’s Forum: I just heard that Trump is considering renaming Lake Ontario, Lake America. Wow, that will show those socialist Canadians. What a bold move. This phony president is a child. I suggest that all freedom-loving, anti-authoritarian municipalities follow his lead by officially renaming their facilities The Donald J Trump Waste Treatment Plant. There would be so-named facilities all across the country to appropriately celebrate this incompetent president’s legacy, correctly shape his cultural memory, and communicate our shared values of democracy, decency, ...

A clear and present danger: merging Israel’s military with the U.S.

To The Reader’s Forum: Recently the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which merges the US military industrial complex with Israel’s. The vote had to be disturbing, if not shocking, to the Israel Lobby which has counted on passage of the merger by a pliant Congress. The vote was 209 in favor, to 205 against. Though the Democrats, like the Republicans, are almost all recipients of AIPAC money, they voted as a bloc against passage of the $1.5 trillion defense budget for 2027, with only six Democrats voting with the GOP. Seven Republicans ...

All good men should aid their country

To the remaining, true patriots in America … Acquiescence, my friends, acts as a silent stamp of approval that can be the death knell of humanity. German theologian and Lutheran pastor, Martin Niemöller, best known for his opposition to the Nazi regime, wisely advised his countrymen against remaining silent the in face of rising fascism when he wrote … “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for ...

Readers’ Forum

Proposed 2027 law will fuse U.S. and Israeli military To The Reader’s Forum: Every year, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) presents its wish list of monies for the coming year. Lobbyists for the “defense industry” submit a massive document — over a thousand pages — that very few read in its entirety. In general, Congress subsequently enacts the laws granting upwards of one-and-a-half trillion dollars for the “military industrial complex.” The NDAA for 2027, released May 13, contains a proposal - section 224 in the House bill - that will virtually ...

Readers’ Forum

Immigration stagnation makes federal action necessary To The Reader’s Forum: Unless your ancestry is American Indian you are an immigrant and/or descended from an immigrant to the US. That is the reality as our Nation continues to debate the immigration issue. On the maternal side my ancestors left Ireland for the US in the 1860's due to discrimination & famine. Paternally, my grandfather was greeted by Lady Liberty in 1917. He was fleeing a war-torn Europe in the midst of World War I. Almost from the beginning of our Nation, immigration & immigrants have not been ...

Happy 200th birthday, Post-Journal

To The Reader’s Forum: "Hey, P-J. It’s been awhile. Too long, really. I won’t be in Jamestown anytime soon, so I wanted to wish you a happy birthday from the bottom of my heart. You won’t mind, I hope, if I give you a little praise? And why not? Why, by golly, Lucille Ball, Roger Toy Peterson, the 10,000 Maniacs, Justice Jackson and Nick Sirianni read YOU before they were famous. And (just between the two of us) you were the only one invited to see the King of Sweden - TWICE! Of course, you were the paper (as the Evening Journal and the Morning Post) who covered the ...