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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 to know just what some of these orders actually mean or whether the uniter-in-chief had any underst...

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 instance of cultural lunacy. Amen is a Latin word which means “truly” or “so be it.” This fa...

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 voices, Twitter climbed aboard by suspending the accounts of numerous Trump supporters. Meanwhile, ...

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