By John & Nisha Whitehead Tyrants don’t like people who speak truth to power. Cue the rise of protest laws, which take the government’s intolerance for free speech to a whole new level and send the resounding message that resistance is futile. In fact, ever since the Capitol protests January
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Alliterations aside, “Wayne’s World” Johnson’s article in the March 7 edition of The Voice was, using his word, “tripe.” Wayne sold his soul to an “armchair” psychiatrist, Dr. Gartner, along with 27 other waddling quacks, saying Donald Trump is almost as demented as Biden. Trump wasn’t
Musings: •The John Birch Society is back in town! These zombies first crawled out of their graves in the 1960s, preaching what is now called “Christian nationalism.” They believe the time is right to crawl out again and add their two cents’ worth to what the Trumpites – particularly Ms
Say What Now? Just when I thought it was safe to read through The Voice again from front to back, I get to Page 6 in the January 4 edition and there, in living black-and-white, is a column by beloved MAGA man and Trump sycophant, Wild Bill Suhayda. And it’s
By John & Nisha Whitehead Day by day, tyranny is rising as freedom falls. The U.S. military is being used to patrol subway stations and police the U.S.-Mexico border, supposedly in the name of national security. The financial sector is being used to carry out broad surveillance of Americans’ private
March 8, 2024Dear editor; As retiring GOP precinct committeeman for Oswego 10 I wish to indicate my choices for the upcoming March 19 primary election. As is my custom, I do not recommend any positions which are not challenged. For U.S. Congress I endorse James T. “Jim” Marter who has
By John & Nisha Whitehead The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep former president Donald Trump’s name on the ballot. The high court’s decree that the power to remove a federal candidate from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban” rests with Congress, not the states, underscores the fact
February 19, 2024Dear editor; Bill Foster has been our congressman in the 14th and 11th Districts since 2008. In those 16 years he has sponsored 238 bills, co-sponsored 2,266, and has voted in the House of Representatives thousands of times. Every time he votes, Bill proves his values and his
February 17, 2024Dear Editor; In a Reader’s Voice February 13 online and February 15 print edition, David E. Smith wrote that Oregon’s deaths from drug overdose increased substantially after 2020 when drugs were decriminalized in the State, implying that this was the cause. Cherry-picked data often lead to inaccurate conclusions.
By John & Nisha Whitehead The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the federal budget, the United States
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Wayne Johnson conducted his own “coronation” of himself to becoming a fact-checker of me in this publication. He has dragged poor “Chas” Codington to the same undignified/ proletarian stature. Wayne needs reinforcements!! Fact-checking is a new thing in the free world. It’s been brought to us
February 8, 2024Dear editor; In 2020, Oregon voters decriminalized possession of small amounts of almost every hard drug. Progressives campaigned in support of this ballot measure, insisting that their state should help treat addiction rather than punish it. The measure passed with 58 percent support. Now, Oregon’s governor has declared
Nothing pays tribute to our two greatest presidents on Presidents Day, more than a good, old-fashion mattress sale. For any of you MAGAs out there, I’m referring to George and Honest Abe. We recently celebrated Valentine’s Day, the day dedicated to love. And if you and your special other had
By John & Nisha Whitehead Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. Fueled by a melding of government and corporate power—the rise of the security industrial complex—this watershed
By John & Nisha Whitehead Sometimes 10 seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before all hell breaks loose. Imagine it, if you will: It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by a
January 28, 2024Dear editor; “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union” begins the document establishing the framework upon which our country was governed, for approximately the next 237 years. Written by land-owning white men in the 17th Century, just as it implies,
Oh my lord, my lord. Just when I thought it was safe to go back in The Voice with a new fun topic, here comes Wild Bill Suhayda riding full speed ahead on his donkey and shooting his flaming arrows in my direction and that of Chas Coddington as well.
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Wayne’s World Johnson, the author of the piece, was wrote I was wrong suggesting he wanted Donald Trump executed similar to Mussolini during the last days of World War Two. I eagerly read Wayne’s World for my many mistakes.. I wanted to find where I had
January 21, 2024Dear editor; The City of Aurora government and mayor Richard Irvin have decided 15 degrees is warm enough to close the shelters. How cruel. Margie Logman, Aurora
January 16, 2024Dear editor; Illinois governor JB Pritzker is back grandstanding for the news media, complaining about the immigration crisis trickling up to Illinois. In October 2023, Pritzker sent an open letter to president Joe Biden begging for federal tax resources to deal with the so-called “asylum seekers” being bussed
