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Sunday, November 17, 2024

Ignore the cranks and crackpots: check with your health-care provider

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by Tom Maertens If Donald Trump has his way, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be the next secretary of Health and Human Services, the umbrella org...
Monday, September 30, 2024

America: Have you lost your mind?

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THE ANSWER IS YES ! Dear America: Hi, it's Canada. Just thought I'd drop you a line to catch up. I know we haven't corresponded ...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Russian mafia state reaches into U.S.

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by Tom Maertens Several weeks have gone by and there have been no press notices that Yevgeny Prigozhin has “fallen” out of a high rise windo...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Ukrainian defeat of Russia would have modest cost for the West

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by Tom Maertens Ukraine has come a long way since I visited the country as part of a U.S. government delegation in 1992. That was following ...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Community must act now to zero net carbon

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by Louis Schwartzkopf, Ph.D. Kudos to The Mankato Free Press for its May 16 editorial , in which it notes that the extreme weather in our re...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Trump would attempt to overthrow government again

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by Tom Maertens Based on current polls, Donald Trump will likely be the GOP nominee for president. He would be the most corrupt and dangerou...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Criminalizing books? In the U.S.?

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DeSantis’s anti-Woke warriors don’t want students to know. by Tom Maertens Ron DeSantis’s “Stop Woke Act” in Florida prohibits teaching eigh...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

FOX serves as propaganda arm

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by Tom Maertens  "Fox is a hostile media platform. It has damaged our democracy and the people’s trust in government more than any fore...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Republicans promoting extremism

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by Tom Maertens Sarah Huckabee Sanders is oblivious to irony. In her rebuttal to the State of the Union, she said the choice now is between ...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

Jan. 6 leaves indictments, pardons, prosecutions in its wake

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by Tom Maertens It’s been two years since ex-President Donald Trump’s coup attempt of Jan. 6. At least 978 people have been arrested for the...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Trump followers became losers

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By Tom Maertens After another failed election, will Republicans figure out that ex-president Donald Trump is a loser? Most of the high-profi...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

Trump faces multiple indictments

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by Tom Maertens New evidence continues to emerge of criminal activity by Donald Trump and his circle. The FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago re...