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Owens indecently attacks Kirk

Editorials

Joe McCarthy was famously undone by the rhetorical questions at a 1954 congressional hearing: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” If the same queries were directed to Candace Owens at such a forum, she’d sail on unperturbed — since she has no idea what “decency” means. The conspiratorial podcaster has embarked on an investigative series on Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk. In this context, “investigative series” means a loosely stitched together collection of sewerish falsehoods and innuendo smearing Erika Kirk. ...

Celebrate vital roles of women in US history

Editorials

At the dawn of Women’s History Month this week, a common equation emerges among the many, many unsung American women heroes over this country’s 250 years of nationhood: struggle plus perseverance equals positive change. In the 18th century, consider the struggle and perseverance of Sybil ...

Juvenile crime really isn’t much of a mystery at all

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: I heard that the Warren City Council members, the mayor, a judge, teachers and others are going to come together on why there is juvenile crime in the city. I thought these people were smarter. You only have to look into the home and home life. Is there a father figure (probably not) or a mother to set a routine, discipline or rules to abide by, to make sure they go to school, come home, do their homework or even have home-cooked meal? Let them play outside for an hour. Do they have a curfew? No one should be outside after dark in the winter and 9 o’clock in the ...

Olympics showed how America should be

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: As I watched the opening of the Olympics, I couldn’t help but think about how a free country should look. I saw happy, hopeful faces of athletes getting ready to compete against athletes from different countries, friend or foe. I changed the channel and what did I see? I saw a city being invaded by a Gestapo-type Trump ICE, wearing masks, dark glasses to conceal their faces, handguns, and automatic rifles. This was a city in the United States of America, not Iran or communist China. Once loved and respected throughout the world, now we’re looked at as unreliable, ...

American prodigy: Here comes that rainbow again

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: What were the chances that we would be given this gift? By sheer luck we have beaten all odds. Yes, President Donald Trump will certainly be ingrained in the history of America and of the world. He has shown us talents we never could have imagined and most likely will never understand. He may be recognized as a master of American Social Realism and a practitioner of naturalism, which highlighted the struggles of every man. Protagonists against the forces of hate and injustice. Comparable to what John Steinbeck would write in “The Grapes of Wrath,” this president ...

Access to guns largely to blame for youth violence

Letters to the Editor

DEAR EDITOR: In your editorial of Feb. 15, “Youth crime: Why don’t some kids value life?” you lament the recent violence in our city; sentiments we all share. But you blame “The economic and social shifts of the last 50 years” which “produced some young people who clearly do not value life the way those who came before did.” You offered no evidence of what those changes might have been, but it seems to me that you overlooked a far more likely, and obvious, factor leading to kids shooting kids: Estimates are that there are at least 400 million guns in the United ...