As America approaches the 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump's second administration can be described in one word: consequential. Whether one considers those consequences beneficial or dangerous depends largely on where one stands politically. But even Trump's fiercest critics must ...
Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election "convention" will be a "Trumpapalooza." It'd be better if everyone called it that. American political conventions are one of the best examples — among way too many — of American institutional decay. In the ...
As I get older (full disclosure, I'm not yet 70, but I can see it from my back porch), I tend to look back at my life and remember, with amazing clarity, certain days. I know I'm not unique in this. I'm sure everyone has an event where they can recall exactly where they were and what they ...
For those who remember the way savagery shattered serenity on Sept. 11, 2001, the last 25 years haven't dimmed the memory of the evil that occurred that day. One remembers the photos of the missing, murdered plastered on Manhattan's buildings and street poles and The New York Times obituaries ...
"True is it that we have seen better days." -- William Shakespeare Pearl Harbor brought out the best in the American people. We responded by pulling together for a major mobilization when an act of war landed on our soil in 1941. That December day, which Franklin Roosevelt eloquently ...
Fair was marvelous Editor: I have to thank Copper Shores for the wonderful "free lunch" on Senior Day at the fair. The food was great and the servers were gracious. The fair itself was marvelous. I enjoyed it immensely. So many interesting events and the animals were so well kept and the handlers were patiently answering our many questions. I'm so glad I went. Charlotte Brinkman Civilizational erasure To the Editor: Henry David Thoreau said, "The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men." Even William Federer, well-known historian, warned back in 2011: ...
