By Tim Bakamjian

For most of my life, I thought elections didn’t matter. Who became president, my U.S. Senator, House member or governor, made little difference. It had almost no effect on my livelihood, where I chose to live, what I said or did, or whom I associated with. Even though I followed politics, the subject rarely came up. I often didn’t know or care who, among my family and friends, was liberal or conservative. I couldn’t even spell libertarian, let alone define it. And I thought a socialist was…

By Steve Byas

The name of Karl Marx is rightly associated with communism. After all, he wrote The Communist Manifesto for the League of the Just (later re-named the Communist Party) in 1848. Most think of Marxism as an economic doctrine, which it certainly is, a doctrine which favors a dictatorship to implement its viewpoint on such things as the abolition of private property. …

By Ron McWhirter

Before the November election, concerns were raised by Democrats about the ability of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to deliver election ballots to voters and return them. This related both to the absentee ballots used by most states, and the mass mail-in ballots being sent to all voters in some states. They charged that the Trump Administration was trying to starve the Post Office so that ballots could not be delivered in time. They wanted to pump an additional $25 billion of funding into the…