Here’s a typical scene in any American checkup: The doctor walks in to find the patient sitting on the table. “Well, your cholesterol is too high,” the doctor tells the patient. “I can prescribe something for it, but the real solution will be diet and exercise.” The patient leaves that day with a bottle of […]

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Los Angeles Times on E-Verify having a future: Whatever comprehensive immigration reform plan finally emerges from Congress will almost certainly make it more difficult for future immigrants to enter the country illegally ”“ and, if they do, will make it harder for them […]

Congratulations to Marston Lovell for winning the election for York County commissioner in District 3. I also would like to congratulate Roger Hicks for a great turnout of votes in his first time running for public office. While I want to publicly thank everyone who supported me throughout this campaign, there are two people who […]

The great issue in this year’s election was the role of government ”“ federal and state. The Republicans clearly took the election, though it’s more likely the Democrats lost it than the GOP won it. To compare their performance in office and their campaigns through an analogy to the recently ended baseball season, the Democrats […]

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the voters of Wells for the confidence they have placed in me to be their newest state representative for District 7. I am humbled by the support I received, and will work my hardest to help move this state forward. We have big challenges ahead, and […]

Look at it this way: At least the 2014 midterm elections are over. Maybe the most clueless pronouncement ever made by a U.S. Supreme Court justice was Anthony Kennedy’s comment in the 2010 Citizens United case arguing that unlimited “independent (campaign) expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the […]

Men will recognize this dilemma. Women will be horrified and go out of their way to avoid me. No change there, at least. Feeling the call of nature, I strolled into a public restroom recently and made a B-line for the row of urinals ”“ three of them in all, placed alongside and below a […]

The Daily News, Bowling Green, Kentucky, on U.S. benefiting for Nazis being an outrage: Those who have committed war crimes or who are suspected of committing them must answer for them. War criminals kill innocent people for various reasons, whether it’s over religion, ethnicity or ideology. Whatever their reasons, there can be no justification for […]

By Chris Toensing Don’t tell anyone, but the United States and Iran are getting closer – perhaps closer than ever – to letting go of 35 years of enmity. No, Washington and Tehran aren’t going to be BFFs or anything. But they do share a common interest in rolling back the so-called Islamic State, whose […]