Opinion

Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP

Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP

PHOTO OF THE WEEK (September 24, 2020)

Cars and a motorcycle are swamped by floodwater in Pensacola, Florida, on September 16, 2020. Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rainfall.
Jim White, PhD

Jim White, PhD

OP-ED: A veteran’s plea: return to the America we fought for

I am a former Army Ranger. After two tours of Vietnam, I can attest to all that we sacrificed. We lost friends and families. We lost limbs. We lost years of our carefree youth. In many cases, we lost the ability ever again to feel completely safe and whole. We lost our innocence.
Carole Hornsby Haynes, PhD

Carole Hornsby Haynes, PhD

OP-ED: Should Trump defund schools pushing the 1619 Project?

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.