EDITORIAL Fight Isn’t Partisan; It’s Upstate, Downstate If you’ve lived a while, how often have you heard predictions about the extinction of one party by the other? After Richard Nixon’s rout of George McGovern in 1972 and Ronald Reagan’s two terms, the Democrats. After LBJ overwhelming Goldwater in 1964, Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection and Barack Obama in 2008, Republicans. Only one Democrat was elected president between the end of the Civil War and Woodrow Wilson, 47 years later. Only one…
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LETTER from CHRISTIAN BASHEAR Protect Our Gun-Using Traditions To the Editor: To express my support of the Second Amendment, I joined the 2AS group here in Otsego County when it was first organized. For far too long, the New York State government has passed more and more insane gun controls without seeming to care at all that they may be unconstitutional infringements to my right to keep and bear arms. I also am sick of the insulting name-calling pro-gun control…
THE VIEW FROM ALBANY On November 11, Remember Corporal Mayne On Veterans Day, Americans should pause and reflect on the sacrifices made by our veterans. Whether combat veterans or Cold War veterans, all who served need to be given proper praise for a job well done. Our veterans have faced hardships that a non-veteran could never fully understand. Some have faced death in defending our nation’s freedom. Veterans possess the core American values of loyalty, duty, respect, honor, selfless service,…
LETTER from JAY FLEISCHER Much Can Be Expected From President Biden To the Editor: Presidential election results show the popular vote exceeds 145 million (75+ to 70+). The candidate with 75+ pledged to unite America, which will require the cooperation of the 70+. That’s what unity means. To bring America together again and to achieve unity guided by law and order will require the support and partnership of both political parties. With the Presidential change on Jan. 20, 2021, we…
LETTER from RICK BROCKWAY Gun Deaths? What About DUI, 9/11? To the Editor: Whenever I decide to comment on something, I first gather the facts. That, however, doesn’t seem the practice of many people in the area. First, the League of Women Voters commented on the 2nd Amendment Sanctuary Movement. Then it was Mary Ann Whelan and others. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and they can speak or write their thoughts. The Freedom of Speech is guaranteed in the…
EXCERPT from JOE BIDEN First, Let’s Control COVID-19 Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from Joe Biden’s speech to the nation Saturday, Nov. 7, after his votes in the Electoral College surpassed the 270 majority earlier in the day. Now that the campaign is over – what is the people’s will? What is our mandate? I believe it is this: Americans have called on us to marshal the forces of decency and the forces of fairness. To marshal the forces of…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Identity Politics Big Loser It wasn’t clear by Wednesday afternoon who had won the White House, but one bad idea was soundly defeated on Tuesday: identity politics. The concept that the country should be divided into aggrieved categories based on race, national origin or sex – now a core tenet of the Democratic Party – lost from coast to coast. It lost in Miami-Dade County, Fla., where Cuban-Americans delivered votes for President Trump. We don’t know the…
LETTER from GARRETT deBLIECK Founder’s Goal: Individual Sovereignty To the Editor: Recent discourse has revealed an alarming ignorance concerning the Bill of Rights. It seems a prudent reminder that the origin of these listed Rights was, in fact, part and parcel to how America became a nation. The foundation of our Bill of Rights comes directly from the Declaration of Independence. For the Declaration itself listed “certain unalienable rights,” which were transgressed by Great Britain. The Bill of Rights echoes…
LETTER from BUZZ HESSE Early History Here Involved ‘Savagery’ Editor’s Note: Proceed with caution here. Some of the descriptions are pretty rough. To the Editor: I would like to address the controversy surrounding the “Sullivan Expedition of 1779” plaque erected in 1912 in Neahwa Park by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Oneonta Chapter. Common Council member Luke Murphy, who is seeking a review of the plaque, has referred to some of the language and ideas on the marker as…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID In COVID Era, Makin’ Whoopee Even in the throes of a major worldwide pandemic that has killed over a million people, will probably kill millions more, has damaged the health of at least as many, and caused an economic recession, there is still a need for scientific research to progress. COVID-2 has spurred thousands of studies and research papers in all fields but I think I found the one that probably tops them all.…
