Editorial

Linda Simms Special to the Olean Times Herald

May 14, 2013

America has lost its way

The great “American Experiment in Democracy” is unraveling. Today, all across this once great country, ordinary people — not just small fringe groups — but ordinary people, are truly afraid.

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