I live in Shawnee, Oklahoma. On any given Sunday morning, there will be a significant percentage of the population that gets up early and heads to a church of their choice.
But according to one su…
Category: editorials
Do You Have Crabs in Your Life?
I imagine you are asking yourself, “Where is she going with this title?” I will explain. Recently, I found out an interesting fact. Did you know if you catch one crab and put him in a bucket, you …
Rick Holmes: In Iraq, the bitter fruit of intervention
Twelve years into the American intervention in Iraq, the things opponents – yes, there were opponents to George W. Bush’s invasion, including me – warned about have come true: an Iraqi civil war, spr…
Iraq: Losing our Trillion Dollar War
By Ron Hart
In his own "Mission Accomplished" moment, Obama declared a couple of years ago that he had brought a “responsible end to the war in Iraq.” As it turns out, not so much.
A…
United Way donations help local families in need
United Way donations help local families in need
Amtrak, Donald Trump, China, Expanding Monster
By Glenn Mollette
I am sad for the eight people and their families who died and the many others injured because of the recent Amtrak disaster. Tragedy can happen regardless of ownership. I wi…
Milton Cemetery, our true historical site
OUR VIEW
Homecoming at East Side Baptist Church
Reminiscing
Garland Cartoonists, Mohammed and Common Sense
By Glenn Mollette
The Mohammed cartoon event recently held in Garland, Texas was a demonstration of free speech. People gathered to showcase their cartoons of Islam's Mohammed. Cartoons of Mo…
Who’s driving your fear?
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This sentence spoken by President Roosevelt at his first inaugural address on March 4, 1933, was in direct response to t…