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Don’t be fooled by promised Trump payments

To The Reader’s Forum: As I write, there are about 53 days from Election Day, 2026 and the Republicans are holding a “convention” in Texas. Trump spoke yesterday and offered every adult citizen $5,000 if the Republicans continue to hold majorities in both the House and Senate in the 2026 elections. Not to spoil the party for Republicans, but there are a few reasons why the offer is unlikely. First, Trump has made at least 3 other offers of substantial payments to American adults that have fizzled over time. Second, it should be no secret that the offer will cost $1.3 trillion, ...

Another Great Summer In Bemus Point

To The Reader’s Forum: As a life-long resident of Bemus Point, I can look back on many summers – some better than others. What made the favorable years? Was it the weather, the economy, the activities on and around the lake, or those in the village? More than likely it was some combination of all three. We can do little to affect the economy and certainly nothing about the weather. What we can do is present the village, the town and our individual properties in their best possible light. I would like to thank the Town of Ellery the Village of Bemus Point, the Bemus Point Business ...

Appropriately Honoring Donald Trump’s Memory

To the Reader’s Forum: I just heard that Trump is considering renaming Lake Ontario, Lake America. Wow, that will show those socialist Canadians. What a bold move. This phony president is a child. I suggest that all freedom-loving, anti-authoritarian municipalities follow his lead by officially renaming their facilities The Donald J Trump Waste Treatment Plant. There would be so-named facilities all across the country to appropriately celebrate this incompetent president’s legacy, correctly shape his cultural memory, and communicate our shared values of democracy, decency, ...

A clear and present danger: merging Israel’s military with the U.S.

To The Reader’s Forum: Recently the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which merges the US military industrial complex with Israel’s. The vote had to be disturbing, if not shocking, to the Israel Lobby which has counted on passage of the merger by a pliant Congress. The vote was 209 in favor, to 205 against. Though the Democrats, like the Republicans, are almost all recipients of AIPAC money, they voted as a bloc against passage of the $1.5 trillion defense budget for 2027, with only six Democrats voting with the GOP. Seven Republicans ...

All good men should aid their country

To the remaining, true patriots in America … Acquiescence, my friends, acts as a silent stamp of approval that can be the death knell of humanity. German theologian and Lutheran pastor, Martin Niemöller, best known for his opposition to the Nazi regime, wisely advised his countrymen against remaining silent the in face of rising fascism when he wrote … “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for ...

Readers’ Forum

Proposed 2027 law will fuse U.S. and Israeli military To The Reader’s Forum: Every year, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) presents its wish list of monies for the coming year. Lobbyists for the “defense industry” submit a massive document — over a thousand pages — that very few read in its entirety. In general, Congress subsequently enacts the laws granting upwards of one-and-a-half trillion dollars for the “military industrial complex.” The NDAA for 2027, released May 13, contains a proposal - section 224 in the House bill - that will virtually ...