The U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that 2012 losses because of personal identity theft totaled $24.7 billion (http://tinyurl.com/mdncmmw). The money losses from identi…
Category: editorials
Illegal Immigration, how many will the boat hold?
Two thousand two hundred and twenty-three people desperately tried to escape from the sinking Titanic. One thousand five hundred and seventeen perished, as they could not escape. Most of them could n…
Constituent Voice
Constituent Voice
With 'friends' like Facebook…
Facebook has endured. I thought the social networking phenomenon would have slowed down after everyone got to look at that sandwich I had for lunch or the family pictures from Dollywood I posted last…
Obama Administration’s Selective Prosecution of Opponents
Never in our country's history has an administration used “our government” so aggressively against its enemies. It has attempted to harm opponents through selective prosecutions, thereby sending a m…
Economic Freedom
A couple of years ago, President Barack Obama, speaking on the economy, told an audience in Osawatomie, Kansas: "'The market will take care of everything,' they tell us. … But here's the problem: I…
Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq
Dear Editor,
With the invasion of Iraq by rebels or terrorists, depending on which country they are in, the news media reported on a Iraq ammo depot. The focus of the news report was the…
Our View: Phony and fabricated scandals
President Obama said last January there isn’t a smidgen of corruption within his administration. He reiterated the fact this week and said the current scandals are “fabricated” and “phony.” How can …
Celebrating the Fourth, who will keep America going?
By Glenn Mollette
We live in an interconnected world. Energy, cars, televisions, clothes and much more are traded among the countries. There are positives with global trade. If we can't get a…
Slavery Reparations
Calls for slavery reparations have returned with the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" in The Atlantic magazine (May 21, 2014). In making his argument, Coates goes through t…