To the Editor, Now that America has a female vice president, isn’t it time for women to sign-up for the military draft, the same as 18-year-old males? Why do women have rights and men have responsibilities? Robert Smith Follansbee
To the Editor, A few years ago at a public meeting a former city official said, one thing I have learned over my career is nothing stays the same, change is always going to happen. And of course that is true. But my thought was — how much of that change is for the good? How much change over the years has taken us incrementally down the wrong path and led us further away from our understanding of our true reason for being? The Holiest day of the year for Christians is Easter - the celebration of Jesus raising from the dead after His Good Friday execution so that we can be redeemed, ...
To the Editor, Actress Kate Winslet’s new movie, “Ammonite,” is a historical biography of 19th century paleontologist Mary Anning. It features a lesbian relationship, between Anning and an associate. The movie’s producers freely acknowledge the relationship never happened, and is depicted, simply, as a nod to “modern sensibilities.” In other words, it’s totally irrelevant to the story, and an outright lie. It’s been crowbarred in, due to nothing more than the “social injustice” of Anning, a strong, intelligent woman in a “patriarchal” society and ...
To the Editor, The pundits and opinionators the likes of Cal Thomas, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and many others, with the lack of fact-based journalism and mostly innuendo, have failed America. Fox opinionator Hannity skillfully phrases a question to get the answer he wants to hear and immediately interrupts the guest if they don’t agree. Junk journalism at its worst. COVID-19 is just a warm-up for what is to come. Former President Donald Trump’s message to the public of March 1 that everyone should get the vaccine is, as usual, Republican ineptness— they always are a day late ...
To the Editor, This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad. Here comes Peter Cottontail. Hopping down the bunny trail. It is Easter. A time for rejoicing. A time to worship. Families, neighbors, and freinds get together. As for the younger folk, the visions of that pastel dressed bunny coming to their household...in their sleepy heads. Ah Easter. No more snow. Flowers are blooming. Trees beginning to bud. Grass is turning green. A time for all of us to look ahead to better times. And Easter. Kevin Neverly Weirton
To the Editor, Two mass shootings in two weeks. The Democrats are back. Sounds like there’s a gun bill on the Congressional table. The perpetrator of this latest shooting is named Ahmad al Issa. He’s Syrian by birth, and long had issues with paranoia and aberrant behavior. He was supposedly on the FBI watch list. Like that matters. Speculation is the attack might have been a retaliation of sorts for the bombing of Syria, as President Biden returns to politics—and wars—as usual. The usual suspects, however, are desperately sticking to the “angry white man” narrative ...