Category: Editorial

Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), falling on March 1 this year, means Ash Wednesday follows, issuing in six weeks of Lent before Easter Sunday. At a time when a Pew Research Center study shows that an increase in the number

Short-timers vs. their own heirs

Climate Crisis, Editorial, National Politics

Last December Huffington Post’s Sarah Ruiz-Grossman reported on a study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal that said, “Nearly 60 percent of young people surveyed said they were “very” or “extremely” worried about climate change, and 45 percent said

GOP syllabus anti-education

Ignorance is bliss – according to Republicans. More specifically, they advocate ignorance in education, indoctrination over inquiry and investigation. They are afraid of facts and those who wield them. Bad enough that they sit zombie-like in front of

Warming planet smoke screens

Climate Crisis, Editorial, National Politics

A new report by federal climate scientists predicts, “Sea levels along coastlines in the United States will rise about one foot by 2050, with larger increases on the East and Gulf coasts,” according to Rebecca Hersher of National Public

At the Lincoln Memorial…

By Jim Holland … in 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior repeated words of the Declaration of Independence, hailing them as a promissory note of American freedom and equality. The reason and cause of the occasion at the Lincoln Memorial

Play to win and all lose

Editorial

Thirty-six years ago, James P. Carse published a small, fine book, Finite and Infinite Games. As with much thought-provoking books, we need not agree with everything he says in order to glean important insights from it. Often, the ability of

Devalued lives

I was born while the Korean War was raging though I have no memories of it. But, as a child of the fifties, part of the ambience of the times was the public memory of the Red Chinese hordes

Hoopla hides sordid truths

Most of the best winter athletes in the world are arriving in Beijing this week to pursue glory and gold medals at the Winter Olympics, which opens Thursday. Injuries might keep a few stars away, COVID has already hit

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