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Following the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, no less than VP Kamala Harris opined that there is much to do to make America’s crimi

Editor: In the tightly controlled reality of Joe Biden, the man who supposedly calls the shots for the free world practices his own cancel culture. This wa

Just as the media and the U.S. government once went to great lengths to humanize and shine a light on Russia’s “Uncle Joe” Stalin, simila

Mark Figley: Tim Scott knows that Democrats have zero credibility By Mark Figley - Guest Columnist Following Senator Tim Scott’s official Republican response to Joe Biden’s recent “state of disunion speech, “ Twitter saw fit to allow the racial slur “Uncle Tim” to trend for eleven hours before finally taking it down. This is how the Democrat left demeans a black conservative who dares to challenge its unquestionable liberal orthodoxy. Scott’s transgression was to contradict Joe Bi...

Mark Figley: Free speech not compromised By Mark Figley - Guest Columnist In today’s wacky world, the preponderance of news that gets reported is that which promotes the narrative of the left. Short of being misrepresented, stories that impede this are customarily ignored. That was certainly the case with some recent good news from Portsmouth, Ohio. Shawnee State political philosophy professor Nicholas Meriwether sued the university in November 2018 after it formally charged him with violatin...

Mark Figley: Biden is just getting warmed up By Mark Figley - Guest Columnist On day one of his administration, Joe Biden appointed the law partner of his son Hunter’s defense attorney as the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division. In a normal world, this news would have been reported by a dedicated media; however, it was only further excluded from newsworthiness through Biden’s issuance of 52 executive orders in his first 20 days in office. At this point, it remains difficult...

Mark Figley: America twisted by politically correct Nancy Pelosi By Mark Figley - Guest Columnist On Jan. 4, Democrat congressman and ordained minister Emaunuel Cleaver provided the first daily congressional prayer of the 117th House of Representatives. Notably, he ended the prayer by saying “amen and awoman.” In Nancy Pelosi’s age of enlightenment, this qualifies as brilliance under the heading of wokeness, yet for those seeking to maintain what’s left of common sense, it’s one more ...

Mark Figley, in his Jan. 26 column in The Lima News, voiced his grievance that social media platforms refusing to enable the dissemination of lies, as fact

Mark Figley: Effort to silence dissenting speech hits home in Lima By Mark Figley - Guest Columnist Following the recent attack on the U.S. Capitol, the cancel culture sprung into action by attacking freedom of speech. This was achieved after Twitter made the decision to initially suspend the president’s account through the remainder of his term, then banned him permanently “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Spurred on by the likes of Michelle Obama and other progressive...

The surreal assault upon the U.S. Capitol on January 6 was an event of great historical context. And although it cannot be excused, it is understandable th