We tell children it is more blessed to give than to receive. Then, by the time we become adults we forget this wise saying. Why? 

Since 2021, the Biden-Harris administration’s open borders policy has encouraged more than 10 million people to try to cross the border illegally. Violent criminals, suspected terrorists, and deadly drugs like fentanyl have poured in.

If the guiltiest person deserves the fairest trial, we were missing the critical context needed to judge Nixon – not just the 61% who supported him in 1972, only to abandon him six months into his second term of office, and those who worked for him who later questioned their decision to do so, but all Americans.

Walz retired from the Minnesota National Guard in 2005, ending a 24-year career shortly before his unit, the National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery, deployed to Iraq. The unit in question deployed to Iraq for 22 months after Walz left it and suffered casualties.

Ideological litmus tests have no place in higher education. They weaponize loyalty and contradict the university’s purpose of fostering academic inquiry and informed debates. Scholars cannot pursue truth or progress if they are denied academic jobs based on their devotion to a specific political ideology or philosophy.

Let me clear something up: Vice President Kamala Harris is the “Border Czar,” and while she is trying to deny that fact, pretend to care about border security, and distance herself from her failures now, her actions over the last four years have shown a complete disregard for the human suffering that occurs daily at our nation’s southern border.

The conflict today is not simply a normal policy argument between conservatives and progressives. It is over the future of the historic American nation, both its creed and its culture. Therefore, those who affirm the American nation – whether they are NatCons, FreeCons, or patriotic liberals – should be called Americanists.

A battle is underway in five Midwest states over construction of carbon dioxide (CO2) pipelines as part of the green energy transition. Opposition to wide-area pipeline networks is rising from farms and communities. But utilities and state governments intend to seize land over landowner protests.

What drove Joe Biden from the presidential race is an eerie parallel to what Richard Nixon faced exactly 50 years ago. Both men believed they could survive fatal wounds, yet instead of having the voters decide their fates, both were ultimately done in by their own parties.

The rest of the country learned what those of us in Penn’s Woods already knew: Shapiro’s image far outpaced his actual performance. His tightrope act on key issues resulted in drawing fire from both sides of the ideological divide.

For those of you who think socialism is the way to go and if you succeed in pushing us further that way, rest assured when that day comes, you won’t be bothered with any pesky surveys – for you will be dealing with monopolies that could care less about how you feel about their services.  

Words everywhere. Words in laws passed by Congress, words in instructions for the devices that make our lives easier, words in novels and newspapers that edify us, words we use to convey our heartfelt sympathies, words we use to debate what course of action is good for our families and our country.

Ladies and gentlemen, Vicki Knauff has served as Highland County Historical Society executive director since 2014. She served on the HCHS Board of Trustees before that and was a longtime educator.

Winter is coming. That’s the brutal message delivered on Friday – after an abysmal jobs report and the NASDAQ 100 plunging into correction territory. Maybe these chill winds are a warning and not an actual harbinger of an imminent recession. But one has to take note when Warren Buffett sells off his favorites to pile up mountains of cash.

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.