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Bill Dunkel is a retired educator.
WINDHAM-On Jan. 13, amid widespread killings of demonstrators in Iran, President Trump posted on Truth Social "Iranian Patriots, keep protesting-take over your institutions!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price." However, Trump justified the killing of Renée Good in Minneapolis, falsely claiming...
A bill is introduced in a state to tax citizens to support the teaching of the Christian religion. Opponents circulate a petition opposing the measure. The petition's author says that no politician is a competent judge of religious truth, that every citizen has the right to religious freedom according...
The U.S. spends $1.73 trillion a year for national defense, but we cannot protect our children from being shot in school. The recent carnage at the Covenant School in Nashville - the 13th school shooting this year - proves again that all children are vulnerable to this madness. Twenty years ago, the gun industry began to aggressively market assault-style weapons, particularly the AR-15, which became a cash cow. Today, one of every four guns made in the U.S. is an...
If the Founding Fathers were around today, they would be flabbergasted by our inability to take even the most basic, commonsense steps to protect our children from being murdered at school. Passively accepting, year after year, horrific school shootings, like the recent slaughter in Uvalde, Texas, would strike them as collective madness, which it is. In any sizable segment of the population, there always will be some people who are so emotionally unbalanced, mentally ill, isolated and distraught, or politically...
