When thinking of “appeasement”, the natural connection is to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler when he used British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s lack of guts, spine and foresight to his advantage, ultimately rolling over Czechoslovakia, and then the entirety of Europe, including its Jewish population. Although the Hitler correlation occurs during...
Brandi Orth: Vote-by-Mail Signature Verification Ensures Safety and Integrity
When it comes to Vote by Mail ballots, it may be reassuring to know that every single signature, on every single ballot envelope is compared to the voter’s signature on their Voter Registration record. Every single signature. In fact, in the March 2020 Presidential Primary election, 87% of Fresno County...
Opinion: Prop. 21 Will Make Valley’s Housing Crisis Even Worse for Latinos — And the Rest of Us
As our region continues to reel from an economic crisis sparked by the COVID-19 outbreak, many people throughout the Central Valley continue to struggle to make ends meet. Now, more than ever, the lack of available affordable housing is a pressing issue for Valley residents. A measure on the November...
Victor Davis Hanson: California Comes up With Illogical Reparations Bill
[aggregation-styles] Las Vegas Review Journal SubscriptionCalifornia’s state legislature just passed, and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to California’s African American population — 155 years after the abolition of slavery. Apparently, when California’s one-party government cannot find solutions to current existential crises, it turns to...
Opinion: Fixing California’s Unreliable Electricity Grid Should be the Priority, Not Pushing EV Usage
Californians are once again struggling with devastating wildfires and another hot summer that has wreaked havoc on the state. Both placed an enormous strain on our electrical grid, causing rolling black outs across the state, sometimes for days at a time. So, at a time when the electrical grid is...
Opinion: TJ Cox Is Fighting to Bring Water to the Taps and the Fields
Kerman is an hour drive from David Valadao’s home but it might as well have been on another planet. For six years Valadao supposedly represented Congressional District 21, and for all six he was mostly missing in action. Mr. Valadao graced us with his presence once during his tenure, and...
Opinion: Israel’s Founding Generation of Looters
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz According to historian Adam Raz, in his book “Looting of Arab Property in the War of Independence” (Carmel Publishing House, in association with the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research; in Hebrew), Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion said in July 1948: “It turned out that most of the Jews...
Trumpworld Delighted in Cruelty. Now That Trump Has COVID, It Demands Empathy.
[aggregation-styles] Business Insider Subscription Trumpists love their Dear Leader in no small measure because of his talent for unapologetically engaging in abject cruelty. Whether he was mocking a disabled reporter's affliction and delighting in Hillary Clinton's health travails on the 2016 campaign trail or separating migrant children with Down syndrome...
I Thought Trump Was Winning the Debate. but Then I Turned off the Sound.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription If you want to understand who won this week’s presidential debate, keep in mind a moment from our political past that I call “Stahl’s Epiphany.” During the 1984 presidential campaign, CBS reporter Lesley Stahl put together a tough, unsparing critique of Ronald Reagan, focusing on...
Judd Gregg: The Horror of the Biden Budget
[aggregation-styles] The Hill In Joseph Conrad’s classic novella Heart of Darkness, his main character, Kurtz, goes into the African jungle. There, Kurtz dies. But his last words have carried on. Kurtz concludes his life and the book with the cry: “The horror.” The words and story have undergone constant reinterpretation...
