Opinion

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

After a harrowing escape from their home nation last summer, some 7,200 Afghan allies of American forces passed through Camp Atterbury on their way to new homes in the United States.

With a $1 trillion infrastructure package on the books and the Biden administration’s $1.8 trillion “Build Back Better” measure preoccupying the Senate after passing the House, government spending is very much on Americans’ minds.

Attorney General Todd Rokita casts doubt on the validity of any state COVID data insinuating that the reporting has been politicized by government officials, hospitals and the “left-wing” media by inflating the numbers.

Although there are very few things that surprise me, I have to admit I was a bit taken aback by some of the reactions on social media lately that I had been shot — booster shot, that is.

Angry about COVID vaccine mandates, most of the Republican supermajority in the Indiana House passed a mandate of their own: They’ve advanced a bill that tells employers they cannot require employees to get COVID vaccines.

It’s an issue that has long engaged my attention: Where do we draw the line between autonomy and subjugation, between when we should be left alone and when we must be made to conform for the common good?

The Detroit News

The Apocalypse is at hand. And it was COVID that brought it about.

President Joe Biden got it right: The new coronavirus variant omicron is “a cause for concern, not a cause for panic.”