• Editorial: Only dictators have immunity from criminal acts while in power

    It seems unlikely that the Supreme Court will embrace Donald Trump’s outrageous claim that as a former president he enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions that he allegedly took to overturn the 2020 election and cling to power. This is a relief. To do otherwise would allow the office to become, as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson put it, "the seat of criminal activity in this country." Ominously, however, some conservative justices during Thursday’s oral argument expressed...

  • Letter: Freedom to Vote Act would protect our rights

    Americans must make their voices heard.

  • Reader letter: When it comes to 'criminals' we need to show mercy

    In a recent Windsor Star news story, reporter Trevor Wilhelm, covering the opening of a coroner’s inquest into the death of Chad Romanick, quoted the widow speaking of the “gentle, patient, thoughtful” man who developed a drug addiction and was depressed and suicidal. Romanick was accused of attempted murder and killed himself when police showed […]

  • Letter: Don’t believe the lies, Trump is a criminal

    Perhaps the author of a recent letter understands how Donald Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, put his finger on the scales of justice numerous times and that Trump has promised to do so if reelected, since he believes that’s what presidents do (“Biden is a dictator using agencies to ruin Trump,” Star-Advertiser, April 16). Of course, he laughingly denies Trump ever did it. See the Mueller report or Michael Cohen or Geoffrey Berman as proof of the fact.

  • Letter from London: Letters from Everywhere

    Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More

  • MSNBC Blames TN Gun Laws for Shooting -- But Gunman Came from Illinois

    On this past weekend's The Saturday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart teamed up with anti-gun activist Dr. Jonathan Metzl to spread misinformation about the effects of gun laws as the two discussed his book on the 25th anniversary of the Columbine school shootings. As the discussion turned to the 2018 attack on a Nashville Waffle House by 29-year-old Travis Reinking, Dr. Metzl reflexively blamed Tennessee's "pathologically loose gun laws" without divulging that the gunman had only somewhat...

  • MSNBC Blames TN Gun Laws for Shooting -- But Gunman Came from Illinois

    On this past weekend's The Saturday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart teamed up with anti-gun activist Dr. Jonathan Metzl to spread misinformation about the effects of gun laws as the two discussed his book on the 25th anniversary of the Columbine school shootings. As the discussion turned to the 2018 attack on a Nashville Waffle House by 29-year-old Travis Reinking, Dr. Metzl reflexively blamed Tennessee's "pathologically loose gun laws" without divulging that the gunman had only somewhat...

  • Las Vegas letter carriers call for change after rise in violent attacks on the job

    LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - Mail carriers held a rally downtown on Wednesday to raise awareness for what they called a startling rise in violent attacks in Las Vegas and across the nation. "When I was attacked," letter carrier Roberta Dang recalled. "I was caught off guard." Many U.S. Postal Service workers and National Association of []

  • Trump’s first day on criminal trial: Bored as hell and blaming his enemies

    An exhausted Trump doesn’t want to be there and is trying desperately to avoid it. He can’t, and the next two months will be torture for the man who could soon become president once again. Alex Woodward reports from Manhattan criminal court

  • Man free on bond in 2 criminal cases arrested over weekend on gun charges

    Jaquon Mixon, 24, was booked into the Mahoning County Jail Saturday evening on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, a third-degree felony; and improper handling of firearms, a fourth-degree felony.

  • In letter to Kejriwal, Delhi lieutenant governor blames AAP government for water shortage in capital

    This came after Cabinet minister Atishi asked the LG to suspend the CEO of the Delhi Jal Board for failing to ensure adequate water supply across the city.

  • Letters April 25, 2024: 'The way the federal budget is done is just criminal.'

    Lock them up If I ran financial and fiduciary deficits in my personal and corporate life like Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau do with our country, I’d be in jail. Mike King (It is criminal.) Who gets your vote? The SUN should conduct a poll to see which world leader is the most skilled. I […]