As the saying goes, when someone shows you who they are, believe them. And Russia has shown itself, on numerous occasions now, to be a habitual liar. It started before […]
Opinion
Ivermectin is useless against COVID
by Michael Hiltzik The final results are in, and they’re incontrovertible: Ivermectin, that nostrum assiduously promoted by anti-vaccine advocates and conspiracy-mongers, is utterly useless against COVID-19. That’s the conclusion of […]
President Biden can’t handle his job
by Jay Ambrose Someone forgot to tie him to his Oval Office chair, and so it was that President Joe Biden took off for Europe to discuss the Ukraine horror […]
Give gov’t agencies the power to protect us
In 1999, Rob Bilott, an environmental lawyer who had built his career defending large corporations took on the case of a Parkersburg farmer, Wilbur Tennant, whose cattle were dying. […]
Democrats need to break the COVID-funding stalemate. Now
by Jonathan Bernstein Democrats should be pushing hard this week — not next week! — to break the logjam preventing full funding for pandemic prevention and treatment. There’s no excuse […]
Employment conundrum: greater marijuana use
America is slowly, but inevitably, moving toward legalization of marijuana. Recreational use of cannabis is legal in 18 states and Washington, D.C. Thirty-seven states, including West Virginia, allow marijuana use […]
$1M mark met on M-SNAP’s quest to help area animals
In 2021, the Mountaineer Spay Neuter Assistance Program (known more commonly as M-SNAP), reached a major milestone: The program had given out $1 million worth of vouchers to get animals […]
Ron DeSantis is not a Trump clone
by Ramesh Ponnuru If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the Republican presidential nominee in 2024, it’s already obvious what one of the main Democratic lines of attack will be: He’s […]
‘The Slap’ and expressions of manhood
Sorry, but there is no excuse. Not that that’s stopped some people from trying to find one. And yes, in case you hadn’t figured it out, we’re talking about the […]
Biden slipped up, but he was right
President Joe Biden’s speech in Warsaw on Saturday movingly framed Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as a battle “between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by […]
