Comment & Opinion

GREENVILLE, S.C. (TNS) — The government shutdown rests squarely on the shoulders of Democrats. After getting shellacked at the polls in 2024, they’ve ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — What is the welfare state America wants, and what is the one it can afford? This is not a question Americans are ready to discuss — s...

What were the odds when the sports industry married the gaming industry that the union would eventually produce a scandal? And now it has arrived. The...

A recent Politico article highlights a New Jersey candidate touting Pennsylvania as a better model for the Garden State. Meanwhile, a left-leaning eco...

I would prefer to ignore the No Kings movement. I wrote about it back in June and received emails from No Kings advocates oddly taking umbrage with my...

Once again, Pennsylvania Senate Republicans have walked away from funding public transit — and rural and suburban Pennsylvanians will be stranded. Cen...

It is disturbing to see yet another authoritarian action by President Donald Trump that makes him look more like a dictatorial king than an American p...

NEW YORK (TNS) — As a species, humans possess a kind of superpower: the ability to survive on a remarkably wide variety of foods, allowing us to thriv...

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, is one of the last of his kind in Congress. Elected in 2012 amid the Tea Party movement, Massie has been a ...

Democrats who denounce federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as unprecedented weaponizati...

Talk about heartlessness. We got a press release from the Emporium-based state police the other day that set me off as I read it. It was for criminal ...

The federal deficit was $1.8 trillion in fiscal year 2025, according to preliminary estimates published by the Congressional Budget Office. That’s $8 ...

As president of the Pennsylvania State Grange, a large rural advocacy organization, I have the honor of advocating to support some of Pennsylvania’s m...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Being a millionaire isn’t what it used to be. This isn’t a lament, it’s a fact: As Bloomberg News reported recently, almost one-fifth...

The United States earned its independence by fighting a war to protest various indignities imposed by the crown, including levies that prompted the co...

(TNS) — Don’t believe the headlines. The government shutdown is not really about Obamacare. That’s just the pretext. The shutdown is a tactic employed...

It is understandable that people can be angry or frustrated over how and why undocumented people ended up in the United States. It is a problem that d...

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has one of the highest recidivism rates in the nation. That’s why its decision to close the Quehanna Boot C...

Donald Trump is our first Old Testament president. Where critics view him as a self-absorbed tyrant bent on settling personal scores, he is more akin ...

I understand that Kane Borough Council is in the process of hiring a new police chief. As a former president of council and long-time councilman, I wi...