President Trump and some liberal college students have something important in common. They don’t like the statements made by others, whether professional football players or conservative writers, and they demand an end to such statements. The reason that Trump and the students oppose free speech, even to the point of preventing a person from speaking, […]

Commodities are bought and sold in nameless bulk contracts on the New York Stock Exchange every day. According to Mike Moffatt, writing for ThoughtCo.com, “When an economist, economics professor or economics textbook talks about a commodity, that term refers to a basic, marketable good or service that is produced to meet a demand … interchangeable with […]

Our rural fire departments statewide are facing a critical shortage of volunteers and it’s changing the way they provide services and increasing costs. Since next week is Fire Prevention Week, I took the opportunity to learn more. I met with fire chiefs from much of York County, including Roger Hooper of Goodwins Mills, Steve Benotti […]

For millennia, the ability to interpret hieroglyphics had been lost to the ages. So when Jean-Francois Champollion decoded the Rosetta Stone it was a monumental breakthrough. Since then, a “Rosetta Stone” has come to refer to anything that offers a roadmap for understanding the indecipherable. Today’s political landscape is rife with puzzles and paradoxes in […]

Monday, America woke to the deadliest mass shooting in modern history. The fear, sadness, and heartbreak felt in Las Vegas reverberates in our communities and leaves us wondering how we could allow this to happen once again. The 59 dead and more than 500 injured deserve more than our sympathies and sentiments — they deserve […]

I know how my children feel when I do or say something that makes one, two, or all three of them roll their eyes in exasperation. When I was their age I thought my father was just as out of touch as they think I am now. Full disclosure: from the moment I was old […]

Does the death penalty protect lives and public safety?  Two classic arguments are used to support capital punishment: retribution and deterrence. Retribution demands justice, but we must admit that this simple scale of justice is unbalanced today.  Taking “life for life” assumes we can balance the scales of justice fairly; but many studies show that […]

Ronald Reagan won a convincing popular and electoral victory in 1980. Campaigning for income tax cuts, smaller government, and a resolute stand against communism, Reagan earned a mandate to carry out his conservative vision. Part of his victory was owed to millions of culturally conservative, blue collar, non-college educated voters in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, […]