John Tures

5 days ago | lagrangenews.com | John Tures

Published 9:00 am Saturday, April 19, 2025 As I write this, my alma mater, Florida State University, is under attack. At least one active shooter is going through campus. I hear “the Bellamy Building,” and I know it well. It’s where my graduate student office was. It was the place where I taught my classes. Today is the 18th anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, where my colleague lost his son, a bright young man full of life who loved to teach.

1 week ago | myjournalcourier.com | John Tures

While most of us were focusing on the stock market plunges, we missed that the House of Representatives passed the Save Act, making it harder for many Americans to vote. What the GOP doesn’t realize is that their party is going to be the ones hurt more by this bill. Here’s why. Article continues below this adAs Christina A. Cassidy with The Associated Press reports, “The U.S. House ...

2 weeks ago | yubanet.com | John Tures

April 7, 2025 – As we currently find ourselves led by our national leaders into a full-blown trade war, the worst in decades, it is important to look at the last massive trade war we were in, and how it nearly destroyed America, triggering The Great Depression and World War II. The story starts before President Herbert Hoover took office in 1929.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | John Tures

Republicans have sought to portray the firing of key government workers, the closing of critical agencies, and costly tariffs as a little remodeling job, preaching patience. But if recent special elections are any indication, the American voters are giving the GOP remodelers negative reviews that should make the party “Yelp.”“There’s absolutely going to be short-term pain,” [GOP Montana Senator Tim] Sheehy said, according to Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling with The New Republic.

3 weeks ago | alexcityoutlook.com | John Tures

The inclusion of a magazine editor on what our foreign policy team thought was a secure channel, the strong possibility that classified material was posted on this private chat, and the ever-changing stories and competing claims by those involved shows why our U.S. Congress needs to do its job, and investigate what happened. Otherwise, our government will continue to make such blunders, making it easier for our adversaries to find out exactly what we’re doing.