Letters to the Editor

Joe Manchin Key to Nation’s Future

Editor, News-Register: As I reside in your neighboring state of Maryland, I can witness to the sky-high taxes and crime, laws restricting our use of arms, and a quality of life damaged from decades of leftist policies. But it wasn’t always this way, so please take my warnings seriously. As the far-left policies of Maryland are now being pushed nationally, your state of West Virginia will not be immune to its destructive force, just as it wasn’t with Obama’s War on Coal, which crippled the state’s economy a decade ago. So, the question remains, why is Sen. Manchin the ...

Child Tax Credit Coming to An End

Editor, News-Register: While families are counting down to the holidays, many are also anxiously watching a different clock — the one that is running out for the Senate to take meaningful action to address hunger and poverty in communities here in West Virginia and nationwide. Unless Congress acts before the end of the year, families will get their last monthly check this month through the enhanced Child Tax Credit, one of the programs of the Build Back Better Act now under consideration in the Senate. This benefit has been a lifeline for families, helping them afford ...

Trump Demagoguery Not Unique

Editor, News-Register: The obvious and extreme demagoguery by former President Donald J. Trump is sadly quite reminiscent of the period following World War II known as the “Red Scare,” when the lives of many patriotic Americans were literally destroyed by unscrupulous egotistical politicians, who were willing to exploit our worst fears as American citizens in order to enhance their own notoriety. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin was the leader and perpetrator of U.S. Senatorial hearings, which took place during the first term of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which allegedly ...

Concerns Today Are Same as Past

Editor, News-Register: There was a recent letter to the editor chiding Sen. Manchin of West Virginia about not showing enough concern for global warming. I am NOT concerned about global warming or climate change or whatever you choose to call it. I’ll tell you why. Sixty years ago, and more, this warming showed its ugly head. I recently viewed artist renderings on the internet, these are similar to those published in magazines in the 1960s. Nothing happened when we were warned that flooding would change the world as we knew it. It never even came close. Later, when the ...

Biden Has Done Much for America

Editor, News-Register: When I think of President Joe Biden, I think of a man of grace. He has given the American people so much, such as: - An end to war. Joe ended the war in Afgainstan. - The American Rescue Plan. I certainly appreciated my $1,400, and I am sure the schools appreciated their long overdue improvements. - The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Plan by fixing and expanding America’s transportation and communication systems and making a major down payment on fighting global warming. - Transformative efforts to Build Back America, a great plan to lift children and ...

Hunting Is a Way of Life in West Virginia

Editor, News-Register: So it’s deer season again and folks are, predictably, arguing the politics of guns and hunting. That whole argument assumes that hunting is all about killing an innocent animal. But is that true? During the 1960s my brother, Bud, and I graduated from pop guns to BB guns to gunpowder. We began deer hunting as 10-year-olds with our respective singe-shot shotguns and “pumpkin balls.” When we each reached 13, Dad thrilled us with our own anachronistic but venerable Model 94 Winchester 30-30. Yep, John Wayne’s gun; the pinnacle of weaponry in my mind! Of ...