Breaking News

Pope Leo Needs Trump to Tame AI

Pope Leo is right about the need to make artificial intelligence answer to the human good. AI has to be subject to human moral responsibility. But whose? The pope warns against power accumulating in private hands: A few companies, led by a handful of executives and board members, control ...

Hey, America: Stop complaining

Whatever the outcome of the "deal, or no deal" scenario with Iran, the public attitude toward the war has been disturbing. Despite President Trump's constant admonition that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon, a majority of those polled oppose the intervention. A side effect of the war has ...

Can Trump Handle the World He Has Changed?

Ten years ago this month, Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination for president, with a platform that was vastly different on trade and foreign policy from other recent presidents, Republican and Democratic alike. How fares America— and the world — 10 years later? In some ...

Killing someone close to you

How many times have we read about, or have seen on TV news, someone murdering a spouse, partner, significant other, or family member? Such things have occurred in our town and area. These sad events occur more often than we would like to admit. Typically, we cannot make any sense as to why ...

The AI CEO's Are Their Own Worst Enemy

Much of our rising energy costs comes from a decades-long campaign of progressive environmentalists and Democrat backed regulators to tear down coal-fired power plants, block nuclear and natural gas expansion and make America reliant on wind and solar — the two power sources most popular ...

Readers' Views

More “swampy” stuff To the editor: Trump campaigned in 2024 that he would “drain the swamp” in D.C. Here’s just a few things he actually has done: Accepted a $400 million jet from Qatar, in direct violation of federal regulations. Accepted millions from private donors for his ballroom project. He did not attain permission from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to drop its lawsuit. Now, congressional Republicans have proposed allocating $1 billion taxpayer funds for underground security for the ballroom. Sells merchandise (merch) like a rock band, look up the ...