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    Publishers Perspective: Life Is Full Of Challenges

    Josh Warburton - June 6, 2026
    Publishers Perspective

    Publishers Perspective: Life Is Full Of Change

    Howard Sierer

    Publishing On My Own Now

    Lisa Rutherford

    So Long…It’s Been A Good Ride

    "Let's get rid of the Electoral College" is a great applause line for Elizabeth Warren's Constitutionally challenged audiences on the campaign trail.

    Attack of the desperate Democrats

    Michael Reagan - March 23, 2019
    Congress could soon vote on the Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act, which would gut America's intellectual property laws.

    Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act will lead to bare medicine...

    Guest Contributor - March 23, 2019
    The For the People Act is a comprehensive package aimed at achieving bipartisan goals, namely more accountability and less money in our politics.

    Support the For the People Act

    Guest Contributor - March 23, 2019
    After 50 people were killed at two New Zealand mosques, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wants social media companies to answer for what is posted.

    New Zealand and our social media conundrum

    Rich Manieri - March 22, 2019
    We the people deserve to read the Mueller report, so let's hope that remains the president's position, even after he finds out what's in it.

    We deserve the Mueller report

    Guest Contributor - March 22, 2019
    Pete Buttigieg isn't likely to be the next Democratic presidential nominee, but it's refreshing to hear from someone with a different set of credentials.

    Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg (who?!) elevates our discourse

    Dick Polman - March 22, 2019
    HHS Secretary Alex Azar just proposed a major overhaul of Medicare that would impose socialist price controls here in the United States.

    Azar’s socialist price controls put Americans patients last

    Guest Contributor - March 22, 2019
    The report "It's Time for States to Invest in Infrastructure" says Utah has the third most significantly falling infrastructure investment in the U.S.

    Utah third worst in U.S. for falling infrastructure investment

    Guest Contributor - March 22, 2019
    What if we not only have fake news but fake history, fake education, fake science, and more? What if our world is far more Orwellian than presumed?

    What if fake news isn’t the only thing that’s fake?

    Harold Pease - March 21, 2019
    To save California, federal and state leaders will have to do a 180 and work toward a sensible, sustainable immigration level.

    Continued immigration hard on immigrants, native-born alike

    Joe Guzzardi - March 21, 2019
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