Robert Casimiro News Today

Read Article A recent letter to the editor — “Support for Electoral College“, Robert Casimiro, Jan 29 — left out some important facts. We can all have opinions, but facts matter, and in his letter he does an injustice to the truth when he states there was no mention of slavery concerning the compromise that the Electoral College reached in 1787. A major factor of this deal was the three-fifths compromise, which was based on slavery. It counted three-fifths of each state’s slave popul...

A recent letter on eliminating the Electoral College was totally off the mark. (“High time for Electoral College to go,” Paul Baribault, Jan. 23). The author refers to the “contrived genesis” of the Electoral College. It was hardly contrived, but a seriously debated issue, discussed off and on over the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, […]

Read Article Vaccines for use against the COVID-19 virus are now being shipped, thanks to the efforts of President Trump and his initiative — Warp Speed — that put the program on an accelerated pace, resulting in Dec. 14’s announcement. This is a public/private partnership where drug companies were advanced $14 billion by the Trump administration to do the research. Pfizer, the company whose vaccine is being distributed, was advanced nearly $2 billion to develop and produce the vaccine. ...