Opinion

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

Saturday Night Live comedian Colin Jost delivered remarks Saturday during the annual Correspondence Dinner, and while he took the expected jabs at both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, there was a moment where he explained one of the biggest problems with how people vote.

It was surprising to hear jokes about Biden, something that most places simply don’t allow.

For one, after making a reference to Staten Island being a place that supports Republicans but also supported the British in the Revolutionary War, he quipped to Biden, “You remember,” a shot at the president’s age.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Reita Isaacs, Liberal

Three years ago, I could have been sitting on my patio enjoying the beautiful flower beds all around the fence line while having coffee and a scrumptious breakfast roll. This year is a totally different story because of things like the drought denying natural healing rains to fall on our land.

Then came COVID, basically destroying what was a healthy commerce — government deliberately destroying businesses and lives so they could control the people through fear and retaliation. Remember that?

It has taken a couple years for those who were able to survive only to know it’s temporary because our government is in league with the one-world government.

GUEST COLUMN, Dan Thalmann, kaninfo.com

I recognize it has become popular for conservatives to be against aid to Ukraine and other foreign endeavors. But honestly, anyone who has bothered to understand the underlying intent of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the potential consequences of the collapse of Ukrainian statehood with Russian victory, knows it shouldn’t be so easy to turn a blind eye to their situation.

Please. Quit reading your overtly-biased conspiracy news sites and open a history book. Learning the past can help predict the future.

GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris

History is repeating itself. In 1996, Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr tried to leverage publicity about President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky to force Clinton to testify under oath and set up a trap to catch him committing perjury.

Now Trump’s prosecutor, Alvin Bragg is trying the same stunt. Bragg is hoping that Stormy Daniel’s testimony about her relationship with Donald Trump is sufficiently steamy and pornographic to induce Trump to testify in his trial and subject himself to the possibility of prosecution for perjury. He is also hoping that Michael Cohen’s testimony is sufficiently powerful that Trump has to take the stand to rebut it.