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Who will speak for the animals?

If it seems like there are more and more disgusting cases of animal abuse popping up almost daily in the Mahoning Valley, that’s because there are. It’s become an epidemic. Last week, authorities responded to a property in Coitsville Township. Jennifer Falvey, Animal Charity of Ohio board president and interim executive director, said the agency responded on June 25 to an animal welfare concern at 502 Coitsville-Hubbard Road. According to a story in the June 26 edition of The Vindicator, six dogs were removed from the dilapidated house, which was red-tagged as unfit for human ...

Celebrate freedoms and history of nation, Valley for America250

“We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Since those eloquent words adopted 250 years ago Saturday as the bedrock foundation of America’s Declaration of Independence, the United States has remained steadfastly true to its nation-defining goals. It’s not always been easy or without pain, anger and bloodshed, but in those 2 1/2 centuries, the United States has worked consistently to slowly but surely expand its ...

The American experiment still depends on us

As America approaches its 250th birthday, I’ve spent some time thinking about the extraordinary endurance of our democracy. When the Founders met in Philadelphia for the constitutional convention, there was no guarantee that their experiment would succeed. What the founder’s drafted was not a finished or perfect system. In fact, the American experiment has always assumed we will not agree on everything. The real expectation was that, even when we disagree, we would still work through our differences. As Americans, we all share a responsibility to keep this great experiment ...

Democrats now and then

Following last week’s primary elections in which the rise of Democrat-Socialist candidates alarmed many longtime Democrats, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) read a list of things he said those far-left candidates stand for. To conservatives, and Independents, the list sounded like a grand jury indictment. Johnson said the Democrat-Socialist effort to take over the party and re-fashion it in their image is not limited to deep blue New York City, but is surfacing around the country, especially among younger people who have never had to live under these systems, mostly because they ...

Do Dems have the guts to let toxic nominee lose?

One of the saddest posts this weekend featured Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a moderate, welcoming three Democratic Socialist of America candidates who had won primaries with a handful votes. They included Darializa Avila Chevalier, a nutcase who called for abolishing the borders, police and prisons in addition to accusing Joe Biden of rape. That she deleted those posts doesn’t erase the intellectual deficiencies behind them. Republicans are already putting together a compendium of quotes from Chevalier and other DSA nominees to slow or even reverse expected GOP ...

War and constitutional indifference

Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference. Congress has regulated in areas of governance nowhere articulated in the Constitution. Its general regulatory powers were granted to address interstate commerce, but during the FDR years, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress can regulate events that affect interstate commerce. This has resulted in federal regulation of matters too infinitesimal to measure, that are not ...