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Debate Wasn’t A True Test Of Biden’s Abilities

To The Reader’s Forum: Most anyone who spends 44 years in a job undoubtedly has a great mastery of that job. After his closing presser after the NATO conference, amongst the gaffs and stutters that have marred his career, Biden showed a masterful command of foreign policy. In contrast, Trump’s bombastic, ad hominem style is thin on policy. He Gish gallop’s his opponents to utter frustration, which has served him well. This was the problem with the debate. While both candidates are elderly, Biden is a serious politician while Trump is an entertainer. Biden has arguably ...

Honor Right To Celebrate Different Communities’ Flags

To The Reader’s Forum: The formula is familiar: The Reverend Mel McGinnis takes an ideologically charged issue, stirs it up with a series of Christian Nationalist talking points, and throws in a context-free condemnation of the Biden administration. His latest example of this formula, “Tale of Two Cities and Flags,” is true to form. I won’t attempt to sort out the logic of McGinnis’ faith-based argument. But his praise of Jamestown’s conservative flag display glosses over an important omission: the current Mayor refused the request of local Seneca residents to raise the ...

Focusing On A ‘Balanced Approach’

To The Reader’s Forum: The editorial in the June 24, 2024, edition of The Post-Journal focused upon the editors’ long advocacy of “a balanced approach when it comes to Chautauqua Lake.” Later in the editorial it suggests that “It is important state law reflects the balance needed between ecology and economy.…” The need for a healthy lake is not being focused upon in the advocacy for balance. The balance that the paper and the political establishment advocate for has yet to be defined by those entities. Rather, it simply sounds good and logical and thus becomes the ...

It is About Greed, Not The Local Economy

To The Reader’s Forum: It appears the editors of the Post Journal do not check facts before expressing their opinions promoting fossil fuels. On May 31st, they stated, “The United States instead should be pursuing long-term solutions — promoting or incentivizing the production of domestic oil and gas and investment in increased refinery capacity.” In 2023, the United States produced an average of 12.9 million barrels per day of crude oil, a 9% increase from 2022 and breaking the previous all-time record of 12.3 million set in 2019. This made us the world’s biggest oil ...

Justice Is About Determining Innocence Or Guilt

To The Reader’s Forum: Without the acceptance of truth and justice, we will have a dictatorship not a democracy. We are facing a lot of vitriol condemning the fair and just decision of 12 jurors in Trump’s hush money trial. These jurors took a solemn oath to listen to the facts, disregard their feelings, weigh the merits of the case, then determine former President Trump’s innocence or guilt. If we can’t accept this, we are saying that we no longer want jurors to determine the innocence or guilt of any case that comes before a court. Instead, Trump’s supporters apparently ...

‘Saddened’ Over Verdict Opinion

To the Readers’ Forum: As someone who has twice had the privilege of serving on a jury, I was saddened to read U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy’s recent press release on the verdict in the Trump trial (https://langworthy.house.gov/media/press-releases/langworthy-statement-verdict-trump-trial ). Langworthy alleges that “a corrupt prosecutor, a corrupt judge, and a corrupt jury conspired to undermine our democracy in a manner more fitting of a banana republic than the United States of America.” Both times I served as a juror, I took my responsibilities very seriously and was ...