The Herald-Mail: Opinion
- Feedback for Sept. 28
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 11:45 PMAbout Tim Rowland’s column:“I’m commenting on Tim Rowland’s article ‘How did it come to this?’ What does Tim Rowland think Donald Trump should do? Let the Rocket Man bomb the United States and then do something about it, or should…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Megyn Kelly gets roasted — and it's perfection
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 10:47 PMIf your memory is as bad as mine, when you heard the name Megyn Kelly this week it rang a bell, but you couldn't put a quite put a face with it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Feedback - Sept. 26
Monday - 09/25/2017 - 11:45 PMNation built on backs of diverse ancestors: “Robert Ebersole, ... Spanish-speaking explorers arrived in North America prior to the 17th and 18th centuries. Did you forget about Columbus’ arrival in 1492, Ponce de Leon and Balboa in 1513?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Feedback - Sept. 25
Sunday - 09/24/2017 - 11:45 PMThank you for the help "Thank you so much to the young gentleman who stopped to help me on The Terrace when I took a bad fall on my daily walk Thursday morning about 5:30 a.m.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lloyd “Pete” Waters: Yesterday, I helped an old man die
Saturday - 09/23/2017 - 10:15 PMThe old man was a friend of mine.On his birth certificate was listed the name of his mother, but his father’s name was not there. A home with a mother and no father does not usually bode well for a…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Feedback for Sept. 22
Thursday - 09/21/2017 - 11:45 PMA sin against God
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Meal kits are food industry's answer to Ikea
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 07:35 PMOn the rare occasion that a magazine article agrees with my preconceived prejudices, I will always consider it to be a work of genius.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Feedback - Sept. 20
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 11:45 PMAccount of family reunion refreshing: Frances Norris’ account of her family reunion was so refreshing. It reminded me of the 1946 Ditto reunion at City Park. The photo of us published in The Morning Herald was panoramic because our group…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - North Country has problem with contractors
Monday - 09/18/2017 - 03:26 PMLike everywhere else in America, I suppose, the North Country has a problem with contractors. But there is a key difference. Everywhere else, people become upset when contractors don’t show up.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lloyd 'Pete' Waters: Book burning, statues and Robert E. Lee
Saturday - 09/16/2017 - 11:30 PMOn May 10, 1933, a large book bonfire was held in Berlin. Some 40,000 young Germans gathered to listen to the words of Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister for Germany.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Megyn Kelly gets roasted — and it's perfection
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 08:59 PMIf your memory is as bad as mine, when you heard the name Megyn Kelly this week it rang a bell, but you couldn't put a quite put a face with it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Feedback - Sept. 27
Tuesday - 09/26/2017 - 11:45 PMUnite against ‘jokers’: “Many are upset about the NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem. Now the NBA and Major League Baseball are (protesting).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How did it come to this?
Monday - 09/25/2017 - 08:47 PMAll right, so the headline in The Washington Post on Sunday told us that “Two-thirds of Americans oppose pre-emptive strike” against North Korea. This is the wrong headline. The right headline would have said, “One-third of Americans are certifiably insane.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Who doesn't like to watch a good fight?
Sunday - 09/24/2017 - 11:00 PMWhen it comes to watching sports, I take in the occasional baseball game and tennis match. Otherwise, I have one mantra for viewing sporting events: The more violent, the better.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Letters to the Editor - Sept. 24
Sunday - 09/24/2017 - 12:47 AMLet’s build bridges of mutual respect and listening To the editor: I am deeply concerned about how we Americans talk about each other. The media (newspapers, blogs, tweets, TV, radio, etc.) are full of angry spears thrown at “the other.”…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Letters to the Editor - Sept. 22
Thursday - 09/21/2017 - 11:45 PMDisrespectful NFL players can leave the countryTo the editor:Here is a list of NFL players who have disgraced the national anthem.Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett sat during the playing of the song.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster: The dire need for tax reform
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 11:45 PMThirty-one years ago, President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the largest tax reform and simplification bill in American history.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Letter to the Editor - Sept. 19
Monday - 09/18/2017 - 11:45 PMNashville Statement rightly interpreted the BibleTo the editor:On Sunday, Sept. 10, the Rev. Jake Caldwell passed judgment on the Nashville Statement on biblical manhood and womanhood. He concluded that the statement is “the dying declaration of a re|
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Do we exist to serve corporations?
Saturday - 09/16/2017 - 11:00 PMThe people of the Mohawk Nation, once large, proud and powerful, now exist, just over 13,000 strong, in a barren corner of northern New York, a rug under which they were swept by the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Don Stevenson: The 'too much' disease -- 'affluenza'
Saturday - 09/16/2017 - 11:30 PM“Shame our wanton selfish gladness, rich in things and poor in soul …” — H.E. Fosdick The preacher in me gets the best of me when I think of a particular disease that has a stranglehold on the lives of…
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- Letter to the Editor - Sept. 28
Wednesday - 09/27/2017 - 11:45 PMIn America, we have right to make symbolic gestures To the editor: Some consider NFL players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem is being played as somehow a show of disrespect.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Letters to the Editor — Sept. 26
Monday - 09/25/2017 - 11:45 PMSupport civil rights for all
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How did it come to this?
Monday - 09/25/2017 - 05:51 PMAll right, so the headline in The Washington Post on Sunday told us that “Two-thirds of Americans oppose pre-emptive strike” against North Korea. This is the wrong headline. The right headline would have said, “One-third of Americans are certifiably insane.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Letters to the Editor - Sept. 24
Saturday - 09/23/2017 - 10:15 PMLet’s build bridges of mutual respect and listening To the editor: I am deeply concerned about how we Americans talk about each other. The media (newspapers, blogs, tweets, TV, radio, etc.) are full of angry spears thrown at “the other.”…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Some memories are best left untainted
Saturday - 09/23/2017 - 10:15 PMOgden Phipps was, by any measure, blessed with good luck, as industrious workers tend to be.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Allan Powell: 'The Prince' still attracts scholars
Thursday - 09/21/2017 - 11:45 PMIt was a surprise to see the publication of “Be Like The Fox,” written by Erica Benner. How many readers will recognize the words are taken from “The Prince,” a very popular classic about how a ruler should manage his…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Art Callaham: Good and bad, history can be our greatest teacher
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 11:45 PMSome of my close friends know that Ruth Anne and I lived in the Chicago area in the 1970s. Back then, I was a voracious reader of newspapers (I still am — usually excerpts from four or five papers each…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Feedback - Sept. 19
Monday - 09/18/2017 - 11:45 PMWhy didn't they take care of old folks first? "Before the hurricane, why did they not get the old folks out of the old-folks homes who were being taken care of and needed electricity and needed the air conditioning before…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Letters to the Editor - Sept. 16
Monday - 09/18/2017 - 11:49 AMPastor’s guest editorial read with surprise, sadnessTo the editor:It was with both surprise and sadness that I read the guest editorial by the Rev. Jake Caldwell in The Herald-Mail (Sept.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Letters to the Editor - Sept. 17
Saturday - 09/16/2017 - 11:30 PMWe must vote for sake of future generations To the editor: When will Americans wake up and quit hating just to hate? We have been told for years that we are each other’s enemy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share