This year’s New York state ballot contains the well-hidden and deceptively named “Proposition 1: Equal Rights Amendment.” Upon reading this proposition, you should immediately ask yourself: What do they mean by equal rights? The language of Proposition 1 (Prop-1) brings to mind the ...

Eight years ago, Hillary R. Clinton seemed certain to derail Donald J. Trump’s barely begun political career. Instead, a witch’s brew of misogyny, mistakes and the Electoral College gave us our second minority-vote President of the early 21st century. Eight years later, here we are in the ...

There is one thing that I really don’t like about fall…it is an announcement that winter is coming. However, the one thing that I do look forward to are the colors of fall foliage. Right across from my office window is a “burning bush” bush. As I write this, it is bright red. I ...

Let’s pick up where we left off last week. Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris made a closing argument for the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump by answering a single question: Q: “Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the ...

Yesterday I journeyed over to Dunkirk to attend a mini class reunion. I say it was a mini reunion because this group meets for lunch once a month. I had never been invited to attend before I guess because I live more than a few miles away. It was well worth my effort. There were four people ...

“Have you stopped beating your wife?” is known as a trap question. If you buy into the biased assumption, you’re easily fooled. The fool’s trap of protection in Proposal 1 is similar. “Aren’t you for protections?” intends to box you in a corner, trying to make you look like a ...