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LetĢƵ impeach everybody!

“Today, I am directing my House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” announced Republican House Speaker and whipping boy Kevin McCarthy last Tuesday.Despite the ominous sound of that proclamation, itĢƵ McCarthyĢƵ political career thatĢƵ in ...

Protecting the founding documents

The Constitution is housed, under glass for safekeeping, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The romantic and the realist might together say: wrong, it resides in the hearts and sinews of the people of the United States.The parchment on which the Constitution was first written is now ...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville should stand down

I’m a Vietnam Vet.As a result of the time I spent in Vietnam, I’ve been deemed 100% disabled.I don’t have much time for people who disrespect the military.I have no patience for those people who would use the military for their political chicanery.Tommy Tuberville is one of those ...

The fight for the forgotten American

It is often said we should learn from history. We sometimes do learn from history. Sometimes we don’t.Another oft repeated phrase is that the past is never really in the past. (Thank you, William Faulkner.)References to these axioms – that we should learn from history and that the past ...

Ignoring the unfulfilled dreams of Martin Luther King Jr.

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. spoke at Mt. Rose Baptist Church in Uniontown in July of 1963, he brought a powerful message with him.“We have come a long, long way, but we have got a long, long way to go,” he told the packed congregation on Grant Street.A month later (on Aug. 28), his ...

Is Biden too old for another term?

Most men Joe BidenĢƵ age are retired gents putting on the green or puttering in the garden, or trudging off to Walmart or Walgreens to get their meds. But Joe Biden is not like the rest of us.Elected to the Senate at the age of 30 in 1972, two years later he was telling a group of Washington ...