VOICES

MARC’S ANGLE - After the loss of two US Senate seats in Georgia a year ago, flipping control of the upper house to Democrats, in addition to the loss of the presidency and the retention of the House, I said this was the best scenario for Republicans.

US POLICY - There is no doctrinal statement in American diplomatic history that is more fundamental than the Monroe Doctrine. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - We are now witnessing the madness to which Group Rights Identity Politics has lead us.

COMMENTARY - Conspiracy theories are powerful forces in the U.S. They have damaged public health amid a global pandemic, shaken faith in the democratic process and helped spark a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.

COVID POLITICS - The common accusation hurled at proponents of covid-19 vaccines, like me, is that we are carrying dirty water for Big Pharma.

COMMENTARY - In 1930, John Dos Passos wrote that America is many things: it is a “slice of a continent”, “the world’s greatest river valley”, and “a set of bigmouthed officials with too many bank accounts”.

COMMENTARY - “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride” was my grandmother’s favorite phrase when I asked for anything. 

OP ED: HUMAN TRAFFICKING - Law enforcement officials are warning that the upcoming Super Bowl will attract human traffickers to our region.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The fact that the Left can dredge up some White Supremacist who hates Asians does not mean America hates Asians. 

WAR WATCH - The last thing any of us need is a war with Russia over the Ukraine.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The most oppressed group in America is Generic Americans. 

MARC’S ANGLE- Christy Gravitt is a 25-year veteran teacher at Artesia's ABC Unified School District.

COMMENTARY - On January 3rd of this year, the five nuclear-armed states with the largest nuclear arsenals issued a joint statement declaring that they “consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks as our foremost responsibilities.”

MARC’S ANGLE - A California Republican is a rare sighting in elected office, but a quarter of the California Assembly members are Republican, and one of them is Assemblyman Heath Flora (R-Ripon), who hails from the almond capital of the world in the Central Valley.

DENIALISM - The liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman put things well on the morning of January 7, 2021, in a column titled “Appeasement Got Us Where We Are”:

WORLD WATCH - As Moscow signals its apparent readiness for war over Ukraine, the U.S. government seems determined to ignore Russia’s not-so-ridiculous concerns over the military alliances of neighboring states and the prospect of nuclear weapons on its borders.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Cowards do not go down in history as heroes.  Who wants to receive the Neville Chamberlain Award? 

COMMENTARY - Guess what? I direct the following insight to, among others, the U.S. Congress, which annually and without comment, with only a few objectors, passes a trillion-dollar (and growing) military budget, by far the largest such budget on Planet Earth.

VOTING RIGHTS - Trump set off a disastrous domino effect in 2020. Here are some of the biggest inaccuracies and myths being told about the Senate's vital voting rights legislation. 

COMMENTARY - There are elements in this country pushing to make it a Christian nation even though America’s founders crafted a constitution that specifically separated church from state.

COMMENTARY - President Biden starts off his second year in office with a press conference, and is raked over the coals on his answers.