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America started as local news; local newspapers delivered it

Two hundred fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia. But America did not become a country only in that room. It became a country as the news moved from community to community. Most colonists did not witness the debates of the Continental Congress. They learned about independence through the newspapers that served their towns and colonies. On July 6, 1776, the Pennsylvania Evening Post became the first newspaper to publish the full text of the Declaration. Newspapers throughout the colonies soon followed. The Declaration was written for a nation, but ...

Supreme Court overreaches on birth tourism

The Second Amendment to the Constitution is a relic of a bygone era of revolution. The Founders could not have contemplated that it would apply to semiautomatic handguns. The Founders absolutely could not have contemplated that it would apply to machine guns. The Founders could not have foreseen mass shootings. It is silly, therefore, to think the Second Amendment applies to present weaponry and situations. Therefore, there must be some other, more specific meaning to the Amendment related to the “well-regulated militia.” That is the progressive argument, in a nutshell. The 14th ...

US legacy of service, sacrifice

As our nation marks its 250th anniversary this summer, it is worth reflecting on the principles that have defined American values and success over those two and a half centuries: freedom, liberty, opportunity, and sacrifice. Of those, sacrifice may not be what first comes to mind when talking about what makes America prosperous, but it is among the key ingredients to what has made our republic great. Every generation of Americans has sacrificed so that the next generation would be better off. My own life is evidence of that sacrifice. My birth mother, unable to care for another ...

Birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants is insane

Weeks after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump looked to cut straight to the heart of birthright citizenship — the notion that anyone born in the United States is an American citizen — through an executive order titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” that looked to impede automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants. But in a massive blow to the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court just decided that this executive order violated the 14th Amendment, specifically the first line of Section 1:”All persons born ...

Looking back to where it all began for US

As our country celebrated not just any Independence Day, but the 250th anniversary of one of the boldest declarations in human history, the festivities gave us an excellent opportunity to look back on two-and-a-half centuries of this American experiment and check ourselves against what the ...

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To the Ohio Liquor Control Board for recently acting in the interest of public safety by upholding the city of Warren’s objection and denying renewal of the Convenient Food Mart on Elm Road NE’s Class D5 liquor license. The decision followed numerous complaints regarding shootings (including a murder in the parking lot last year), illegal after-hours liquor sales and loud late-night disturbances at the store and its parking lot. The state board accurately and wisely described the store as having a “total disregard for the law and neighborhood.” We hope its new owners ...