Op-Ed

Thomas Lucente: Americans are killing the Bill of Rights
This week the U.S. Bill of Rights — perhaps one of the greatest enumeration of rights in a governing document — turns 224 years old.Unfort...
December 13th, 2015 |

Thomas Lucente: Gun grabbers are the real danger to Americans
On Wednesday, there was another mass shooting in the United States and, predictably, President Barack Obama, ran to the first open microphone to once ...
December 6th, 2015 |

Thomas Lucente: Inquisition, Crusades not comparable to Islamic terrorism
Another terrorist attack by Muslims, another deluge of excuse-making, misdirection and false comparisons by some Americans.It boggles the mind why so ...
November 22nd, 2015 |

Thomas Lucente: Where are the conservatives?
Libertarian is the new conservative.Seriously.Most of those who wave the conservative banner are not really conservatives.U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said it ...
November 15th, 2015 updated: November 15th, 2015. |

Thomas Lucente: Cost of capital punishment far exceeds its value
LIMA — On Monday, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction revised its execution schedule, canceling all executions set for next yea...
October 25th, 2015 |

Thomas Lucente: Stop maligning Columbus Day
Last week, as Columbus Day approached, I was considering writing a column singing the praises of the Italian explorer. After all, Adm. Cristoforo Colo...
October 18th, 2015 |

Thomas Lucente: Time to end the disaster of federal aid
Predictably, as historic rains fell in South Carolina, President Barack Obama nearly tripped over himself to sign the disaster declaration and open th...
October 11th, 2015 |

Thomas Lucente: FDA rules responsible for 5,000 percent drug price hike
Once again, leftists are screaming foul because someone did something of which they don’t approve but the person was perfectly within his rights...
September 27th, 2015 |

Thomas Lucente: Big government is killing us
For those who pay attention, the government does things almost every day that reminds us of how silly it is to support big government.Last week, the e...
September 20th, 2015 |

Thomas Lucente: US facing mountain of a problem
Sometime around 1426 BC, Egypt’s Pharaoh Thutmose III ordered the destruction of monuments to Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who was his aunt, stepmother a...
September 6th, 2015 |