It was 80 years ago this coming week that the nation of Japan launched its attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The very next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt convened a joint…
Category: Editorials
Happy Hanukkah
The eight-day observance of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, started this past Sunday evening and will culminate this coming Monday, December 6. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days by lighting the candles of the Menorah,…
Guest Op-Ed: Gubernatorial Candidate, Bret Bero, Recalls His Personal Journey With Prostate Cancer in an Effort to Raise Cancer Awareness
By Bret Bero It’s a call no one ever wants to be on the receiving end of: “As you can see from the lab results, we have confirmed that you do have cancer.” But, now I knew. From July 2017,…
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, tracing its roots back 400 years to the Pilgrims and Indigenous People, long before there was even a thought of a United States of America. Thanksgiving is the ultimate family-centered holiday. It has no…
Enjoy the Holiday Safely
We would be remiss if we did not remind our readers to enjoy the holiday weekend, but to do so safely. The pandemic still is spreading like wildfire across our nation, claiming the lives of more than 1000 Americans each…
Guest Op-Ed: America Needs Thanksgiving
By Dr. Glenn Mollette America has been through a tough time. A national election separated friends and family, divided churches and took over our media. We’ve been intoxicated with poisonous rhetoric and toxic street gatherings that led to more division, injuries…
Progressives? No — They Are Regressives
There are a lot of reasons why the Democrats and President Joe Biden have plummeted in the polls and then absorbed a huge defeat across the country in the recent election. As often is the case in politics, the party…
Guest Op-Ed: The Haiti Kidnapped Missionaries, Consider the Costs of Such Trips
By Glenn Mollette The missionaries consisting of sixteen Americans and one Canadian kidnapped by the Haitian “400 Mawozo” gang October 16, is extremely scary. The gang has threatened to kill the humanitarian Christians if a million dollar per person ransom…
Veterans Day — Honor Our Veterans
It was 103 years ago on November 11, 1918, that World War I formally came to a conclusion on the “11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month.” Americans observed the first anniversary of the end of the…
Guest Op-Ed: Honor and Care for Our Veterans
By Dr. Glenn Mollette During World War II, on April 9, 1942, 75,000 United States soldiers and Filipino soldiers were surrendered to Japanese forces after months of battling in extreme-climate conditions. Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December…