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Susan B. Anthony List Opinion Creates Confusion

KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Let’s pick up where we left off two weeks ago. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2025 opinion in TikTok, Inc. v. Garland unanimously, masterfully resolved a complicated issue quickly. Applause, applause. Yet judges, including Supreme Court justices, aren’t perfect. Today let’s look at one way in which they haven’t been. Then you can see what it’s like for lawyers who have the task of straightening out such imperfections. ♦♦♦ Meet James Muir and Chengny Thao. They’re officers of Fresh Vision OP, Inc., a Kansas organization seeking to engage ...

Just Another That Has Disappeared!

People often ask me where I get the ideas for my column. I tell them sometimes they come from conversation with others. Sometimes they come from reading things. Sometimes they come from life experiences. Sometimes they come from exposure to something. Today’s column comes from something that came across my desk recently. I saw a picture of cloth diapers blowing in the breeze. I used cloth diapers for my little ones. The disposable ones were new at the time. They were paper, but they did not have plastic on the outside. I took them with me when I went out of town or visiting. That ...

Making Whine From Sour Grapes

We in Chautauqua County know all about grapes and wine, and for more than 150 years we supplied the world. But now we have a new product from individuals in CHQ who have perfected the art of Making Whine from Sour Grapes. The Sour Grapes were grown in the soil of the November election, where the Left’s “sharp-as-tacks” candidate got beat by a convicted felon, simply because the felon’s policies didn’t insult working Americans like policies of the Left. Hope now exists to eliminate the Marxo-Fascist parasite we have endured for 12 of the last 16 years. Whine-makers ...

Getting Old Is Bipartisan

I don’t know if you saw it recently, but two political leaders in the Congress from different political parties who are over 80 years of age fell and were injured. Apparently, mother nature doesn’t care if you are a Republican or a Democrat when you are getting old. Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat, who is my age, fell on some stairs at a palace in Luxembourg where she was commemorating with other members of Congress the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. Some say that she tripped because she still wears spike heels...but that, as far as I know, has not been confirmed. The ...

Is Subsidized Air Service Worth It?

There’s a scene in Jurassic Park where Dr. Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum, looks at the park’s creators and says, “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. It’s a fitting parallel to the conversation about reinstating Essential Air Service (EAS) at Chautauqua County Jamestown Airport. Maybe it’s possible to bring back government subsidized commercial flights, but should we? I am a Jamestown native who, like many of my JHS Class of 2001 classmates moved away after high school in pursuit of a career. ...

When Is America Actually Great Again?

How do we make America great and what does that mean? Is America great because it has good values? Is America great because our vision of the world is positive? I don’t really know how to interpret “Make America Great Again.” Could it be that we are a Christian nation because we say “in God we trust” on all our money? Is that what makes us great? Or is it because God has blessed us so richly that we must therefore be great? I am frustrated by the idea of “Make America Great Again” when there is no reference to what makes us great and who determines that! The ...