To the editor: When President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu meet, both UN human rights agencies and human rights NGOs have to work overtime to keep track of endless violations of international law, committed with impunity, by these...
The 2025 tax year has ended and the Big Beautiful Bill proved to be a big bogus bust. Donald Trump and GOP members of the House Ways and Means Committee promised $1,300 in tax relief from the BBB. Yet, the IRS reported that the average...
To the editor: America knows how to send a team of astronauts safely around the moon and back, but we don’t know how to elect law-abiding politicians to office. Our political mantra today is, “It’s all good.” We no longer seem to believe there...
To the editor: "There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times." – Abel Herzberg, emphasizing the individual tragedy. In a speech on April 13 commemorating Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime...
We have seen several political leaders exhibit noticeable cognitive decline in recent years. Senators Diane Feinstein and Mitch McConnell are prime examples, as was President Joe Biden. Many observers say that our current president,...
To the editor: Donald Trump constantly demands regime change in Iran, and that would probably be welcome by many Iranians. However, the regime changes that are critically needed are in the United States and in Israel.
To the editor: In Robert Sica's "To life and death" letter in the April 10 Chief, the Voltaire quote, "It is forbidden to kill, therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets" obviously refers...
Wonders and miracles do happen, especially in the Iran war. President Donald Trump conversed with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, leading to a major diplomatic breakthrough in the ongoing conflict with Iran. If...
To the editor: The FDNY gave us four-digit salaries. And then we were tasked to save lives. But who was there to watch after us? After all that training to “save lives” that they put into us, we found that we could not fully provide for our families, or easily...
To the editor, There goes Robert Sica with another letter full of LIES, Trump talking points and projection, stating what Democrats are doing when in reality it is the Republicans using every trick in the book for voter suppression. In his...
To the editor: President Trump has taken a page out of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza playbook for use in his own ICE detention centers. Netanyahu killed or starved civilians, deprived the injured and ill and pregnant mothers of medical care and...
To the editor: Here's another example of the FDNY Emergency Medical Services' (EMS') thorny labor relations with NYC officials. This latest lawsuit came about because the Adams administration, in the face of an...
To the editor: While common sense has been a topic addressed lately by myself and others, I often don't see it in our alleged justice system. Take the case of the killing of police officer Jonothan Diller by Guy...
To the editor: To dramatize the incompetence and increasing dementia of Donald Trump, I think “Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” is right on point with a senile U.S. General (played by Sterling Hayden)...
To the editor: It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -Voltaire On both the micro and macro levels, the combination of birthright citizenship and...
To the editor, Cuba is the next nation in the crosshairs of the lawless Trump administration. In January, it effectively created a fuel blockade of the island. This has increased the suffering of the Cuban people, who also have...
To the editor: The term “common sense” has become a MAGA mantra. MAGA Republicans cite common sense in shaping public policies regarding everything from vaccine recommendations to school curriculum. However, common sense once held...
To the editor: This is what happens when three despot-led countries tee off in a cauldron of international violence. No compromise. No intelligence. No consideration for humanity. Just one threat and escalating military action after another with...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced savings measures to help close the City’s budget gap. The largest item is for the Office of Labor Relations: “OLR will conduct a full audit of dependent eligibility in employee health plans. Ineligible dependents...
To the editor: It now takes over 18 minutes to get an ambulance and 23 minutes for firefighters to get on a medical call. EMS is just 16 percent of a 2.6 billion FDNY budget. Politicians know the deal firefighters first, EMS second or third. The...
To the editor: Recent reporting on Bangladeshi workers deceived into fighting in Russia’s war in Ukraine is deeply disturbing. These men left home seeking honest work, only to be misled, threatened and forced into combat. This is not only...
Donald Trump announced that he will hold all legislation hostage to passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. GOP lawmakers describe SAVE as a “voter ID” bill; that’s a lie. The bill’s stated purpose is - “To...
To the editor: Yes, Thomas Curley, common sense is not common. You certainly lack it. Alex Pretti had been disarmed and was being held down when he was shot dead. Anybody with common sense and morality knows that is murder. Nothing Pretti had...
To the editor: As the nation approaches the mid-term elections, a foreboding wind hovers over the head of the Democratic Party. The results of last week’s Illinois Democratic primaries provide a revealing glimpse into the party’s trajectory and...
To the editor: Recently, our President’s war budget was funded for the first time in history at one trillion dollars. Obama reported that in his own term of office, the level of U.S. “defense” budgeting was higher than the world’s next ten...