Following what might be the most selfless act in the history of American politics, there is a space on the Democratic Party ticket in the upcoming election. I have a suggestion for filling it. Saturday we were having lunch with my son, Alex, in Peoria. He asked whether I thought...
I didn’t watch much of the GOP convention because I pretty much knew what would take place. Also, it was on too soon after dinner for me to take a chance on not keeping my meat loaf down. Wisconsin governor Tony Evers had nothing good to say about it. Listening...
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda My family arrived here in the United States in 1957 during the Eisenhower administration. We were refugees from communist Hungary, one of many countries under Russian occupation behind the iron curtain. We escaped a totalitarian regime that thought nothing of executing their people or political rivals...
By John & Nisha Whitehead “Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response...
July 11, 2024Dear editor; Allan Lichtman has predicted the winning president 90% of the time since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election. He uses 13 key elements, one of them being the incumbent as a winning key, so why is their talk of replacing Joe Biden? Joe Biden is one of our...
“We, the members of the U.S. Supreme Court, are thy gods by reason of our holy decrees. “Thou shalt have no other gods before us. “Thou shalt not make any graven images or likenesses of us, except that of our servant, Donald J. Trump, hereafter referred to as His Angelic...
By John & Nisha Whitehead The U.S. government is working to re-shape the country in the image of a totalitarian state. It has remained true over the past 50-plus years no matter which political party held office. It will remain true no matter who wins the 2024 presidential election. In...
July 6, 2024Dear editor; We needed the fireworks celebration after a rough few days, although I have never wavered from mighty Joe Biden. He’s young compared to a lot of people I know in their 90s and still with it. I’ve had the privilege of knowing people who lived into...
So much to comment on this week, it’s like trying to stuff 10 pounds of my nonsense in a five-pound barf bag, while I pretend to care. First and foremost is the recent presidential debate. Poor Joe Biden had a very bad night. After the debate and his poor showing,...
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda Hans Christian Anderson wrote a satire entitled “The Emperor Wears No Clothes.” It’s a story of two swindlers pulling a fraudulent stunt on a vain King obsessed with fashion and nobility. The two con men tell the King they will create the most exquisite Royal attire...
By John & Nisha Whitehead Most teams will begin non-conference “The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.”—Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissenting in Trump v. United States The U.S. Supreme Court...
June 29, 2024Dear editor; I found the dueling op-eds written by Wayne E. Johnson in the liberal corner and Bill Suhayda in the conservative corner to be very entertaining, but their extreme differences and obvious dislike for each other is a bit disturbing, probably because it is a reflection of...
Happy days are here again! Bela Suhayda is back on the pages of The Voice, and he hasn’t changed a bit. I took care to distinguish between “national socialism” and “democratic socialism,” but Suhayda was having none of it. “Socialism” conjures up in his mind the atrocities of Stalin and...
Sunday, June 23Dear editor; As many of you are floundering over who to vote for, Joe Biden or Donald Trump, I say choose what to vote for, democracy or fascism. As a child, the poem “If”, plaque hung on the wall of our kitchen. I spent a lot of time...
June 22, 2024Dear editor; Some thoughts on upholding a useful idiot. After Donald Trump took office in January 2017, he wasted no time getting Americans accustomed to his lies. He claimed, “It was the largest crowd ever!” at his presidential inauguration then he shamed White House chief of staff, Reince...
By Ricky Rieckert This week, I’m taking you west on East New York Street in remembrances of Aurora to Broadway, from my old homestead. But first, I wanted to tell you about, Harold O’Brien, who lived across the street from me. When we were 7 and 8 years old, we...
By John & Nisha Whitehead Like the proverbial boiling frogs, the government has been gradually acclimating us to the specter of a police state for years now: Militarized police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. Kevlar vests....
Musings: •Now that T. Rump has reached that exalted position of “convicted felon,” he should be coronated in the proper fashion and provided the accouterments in which to issue his proclamations. For his coronation, he should be robed with a bright yellow suit with black stripes about the forearms and...
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda I’ve had to shake my head hundreds of times through the years reading Wayne Johnson’s montage of demeaning hateful slurs in The Voice cynically aimed at his favorite protagonist, Donald Trump and of course, yours truly. A couple of weeks ago, in a gesture of fake...
By John & Nisha Whitehead “I did not know Israel was capturing or recording my face. [But Israel has] been watching us for years from the sky with their drones. They have been watching us gardening and going to schools and kissing our wives. I feel like I have been...
