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SWCS Does Spend – With Caution

To The Reader’s Forum: I am writing to take exception to The Post-Journal’s editorial on May 18, addressing upcoming school budget votes. The paragraph that reads “They (school districts) spend seemingly without caution — and lose sight of conservative policies that help when times get tough” is a patently false statement at least when applied to the Southwestern School District. I can only presume other districts do not spend without caution in good times. As a school board member, I have sat through nine budget presentations. Each year is different from the others. I ...

Stop Training Jihad Pilots

I’m glad the FBI was able to crack the iPhones of the Pensacola naval air base shooter, which confirmed that radicalized Royal Saudi Air Force second lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani had communicated with al-Qaida to carry out a “special operation.” Three young American patriots died in Alshamrani’s December 2019 attack. The more information we have to prevent the needless slaughter of U.S. military members on U.S. soil the better. But Attorney General William Barr’s announcement of the Pensacola jihadist’s unlocked phones yesterday raises more questions than it ...

Is Trump A Mussolini In The Making?

A large swath of the political left seems to consider Donald Trump to be a Hitler or Mussolini in the making, and maybe they are right. He does have that Mussolini chin sometimes. In many ways, though, he doesn’t quite fit the bill. The different instances of fascism share similar qualities, including strict control of the economy and the people. In Mussolini’s own words as the father of fascism, “Everything in the state, nothing outside of the state,” and “If liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government,” meaning actual liberty, not the false liberalism of the ...

Trying To Play The Game Of Truth

When newly minted White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany took the stage last week for the first time — the first time a Trump press secretary has issued a formal conference in over six months — she encountered a ravenously bloodthirsty media gaggle. It was ready to pounce. Would they be able to totally eviscerate her as they had a slew of her predecessors? Well, no. She turned the tables on them all. Predators, it seems, had become prey. While the task of how to feed and water the Washington press corps is no secret to those in the press secretary business, what’s more ...

Outlast Time, Brick By Brick, In Bemus Point

This was supposed to be a story about bricks, but instead it became a story about the authentic charm of our villages, and about the good people who live in them. This is why we stay here and why we love being from Western New York: there are values and traditions and a goodness here that has not been diluted by a rapidly changing world. I wanted to learn more about the Sharpen The Point campaign in Bemus. It’s a program created by the Bemus Point Improvement Committee that sells bricks, engraved with the names or imaginative words penned by the buyers. Each brick costs $50 and is ...

Education Works; Don’t Change It

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve heard many daily press conferences by doctors, scientists, and city, county, state, and national leaders. Some of what we’ve read on various social media, has been false, fake, or edited, and some of what we’ve heard has been factually true and makes a lot of sense, even if it goes against what we’d like to hear. Much of it though, has been opinionated, self-serving, egotistical, accusatory, immature, rude, and unprofessional. I’m not a doctor, nor a scientist, so listening, I try and rely on the expertise of what those ...