The Jeopardy quiz show answer is, “Medicare for All.” Medicare for All is truly a pro-life issue. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) helped many Americans get health insurance. However, it did not resolve the ongoing problem of ensuring that everyone needing medical treatment would receive the care they needed. Due
I cannot remember an election when taxes have not been an issue. Prior to every election we get pelted with the same crap. The Republicans will parade themselves around as the Party of fiscal responsibility, even though they have proven, time and time again, that they are not. Their mantra
On Tuesday, September 18, 2018, at their regular meeting, the Carroll County Democratic Central Committee weighed in on the issue of Medicare for All. The Affordable Care Act helped many Americans get health insurance. However, it did not resolve the problem of ensuring that everyone needing medical treatment would receive
This essay was written by Joe Guzzardi. He is a Progressives for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org. In as troubling an immigration story as anyone will read this summer, between December 2017 and April 2018, U. S. Border
This essay by Molly Redden appeared on Huffington Post Sunday, July 22, 2018. Women migrants are fleeing countries which the United States helped decimate. [Ironically,] since the day Donald Trump began his run for the Presidential office, he has promoted the idea that people who flee to the U. S.
This editorial was written by Peter Roff. Although it’s cliche, Memorial Day reminds us that freedom isn’t free. It costs us, sometimes dearly. This is especially true when we find ourselves unprepared, for a conflict we probably should have expected to be drawn into. America was not ready for World
This essay was written by Danny Tyree. My family has just finished an Orlando-area vacation. While my wife is several years younger than I am, it’s blindingly more obvious than ever, that I’m at an awkward age as a tourist. I’m in that “no man’s land” between pushing a stroller
This editorial was written by Michael Reagan. Donald Trump’s many enemies are becoming more and more frustrated. A year into Robert Mueller’s great Russian fishing expedition, the President they desperately want to impeach is still in office. The liberal media and Democrats have spent a year beating Trump over the
This editorial was submitted by Dr. Arthur Donart. Recently, I got a call from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee asking if I would help, “take back the Senate.” “There is a three-for-one match; for every dollar you contribute, it will be matched by three more,” I was informed. I was
Now that Tax Day is over, it might do us some good to reflect on the latest Republican tax cut. It is not the first, by any means. There was St. Ronald Reagan’s “trickle down” tax theory, which added to the Nation’s debt while enriching the wealthy. He championed a
It is important to understand the difference between a demagogue and a politician and to discern the difference, in order to protect the common good. Such a task is not easy, because they can sound very convincing. Yet, before every election, that task confronts us. So let’s examine the similarities
Editor’s note: Click here to read a CNN report and watch a video. I no more than got back from Thailand than had the urge to jump on the next flight and return! This was after opening my on-line edition of the Bangkok Post [Thursday,] March 1, 2018, edition and
On Tuesday, February 20, 2018, at Southern Florida University in St. Petersburg, FL, my granddaughter, Bianca, invited me to attend a speech. It was to be given by Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering. He has spent 40 years of his life working for the Department of State under Presidents Nixon-through-Clinton as
Step back, United States, and give the Koreas some space. This is the advice former Republican Congressman and distinguished Korean War veteran Peter McCloskey has, for the Trump Administration. A Marine Lieutenant, McCloskey has been awarded the Navy Cross, a Silver Star, and two Purple Hearts as a result of
As a Country, we have evolved. We started off by fighting a war against Britain in order not to pay taxes without representation, well, mostly not to pay for King George’s wars. By today’s standards, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys would be labeled terrorists. Many of the colonists