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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No ‘free’ in free trade

All this talk about "free trade" might make an uninformed person believe that opening up trade with foreign companies will result in free trade for American businesses and workers. Nothing could be further from the truth.

June 22, 2015
People raise their hands as a show of unity as thousands of marchers meet in the middle of Charleston's main bridge after nine black church parishioners were gunned down during a Bible study, Sunday, June 21, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

EDITORIAL: The Christian example of Charleston

The Civil War, the War Between the States, the War of Northern Aggression, the Late Unpleasantness -- call it what you will depending on your preference -- began in Charleston Harbor with an attack on Fort Sumter, and ended four years later with a northern victory that preserved the Union and freed the slaves.

June 22, 2015
Sami Anderson

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Sami Anderson

This year, Sami Anderson and her husband Garrett celebrate the number 10 it represents both their tenth wedding anniversary and ten years since Garrett's "Alive Day," the day an IED detonated under his Humvee on a night mission in Baghdad. Only six months separated the two events.

June 21, 2015
A California high school teacher believes the works of William Shakespeare should no longer be a Common Core requirement, because "one white man's view of life" somehow diminishes other cultural perspectives. (Wikipedia)

EDITORIAL: English teacher learns there’s life in Shakespeare

If there's one man in the history of words and books and speech who needs no defense against the slings and arrows of the envious, it's William Shakespeare, the country lad who grew up to make English the most important language in the world, and to spin tales in it that would instruct, entertain and inspire the millions four centuries after his death.

June 21, 2015
FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2010 file photo, Victor Hernandez stocks apples in the produce section at Whole Foods, in Coral Gables, Fla. Whole Foods on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 plans to start rolling out a system that ranks fruits and vegetables as "good," ''better" or "best" based on the supplier's farming practices. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

EDITORIAL: Consumers have right to know where their food comes from

Who's hiding what, and in whose pantry? American farmers and food processors usually take a lot of pride in what they grow and package, and where they grow and package it -- whether jams and jellies from Oregon, prime beef from Texas and Colorado, tacos from New Mexico, fish from New England, peanut butter "proudly made in Arkansas," and fruits and nuts from California's San Joaquin Valley. It's often right on the label.

June 21, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump needs to show campaign sincerity

During the 2012 election season Donald Trump was saying a lot of politically incorrect things that were right on the mark — and he was generating interest right up until the time he decided a TV show was more important than the country. We are now in the 2016 general election season and Mr. Trump is again making politically incorrect statements that are again right on the mark. Is this all for publicity? Is Mr. Trump just a really rich guy looking for excitement? If he is not sincere about a presidential run I wish he would stop confusing the issue.

June 18, 2015
Pope Francis (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Pope Francis gives global warming fanatics blind faith

Not so long ago the global-warming fanatics got their backs up if someone accused them of preaching religious doctrine disguised as science, even as they defended their scientific "evidence" as if it were Scripture. Global warming was "settled science," they insisted, and the skeptics of the doctrine that the warming was the irresponsible work of man were dismissed as ignorant "deniers" of holy writ.

June 18, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Mega-church mega-greed

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and Russian philosopher Leo Tolstoy had mega-church pastors like Creflo Dollar in mind. Schopenhauer said, "The physician sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

June 17, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Pope Francis no climate expert

When did the pope become an expert on the climate ("Tom Steyer, Pope Francis, and climate change hypocrisy," Web, May 27)? What business does he have declaring that climate change is caused by man's actions?

June 17, 2015
In this image released by NBC News, former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal appears on the"Today" show set on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in New York. Ms. Dolezal was born to two parents who say they are white, but she chooses instead to self-identify as black. Her ability to think she has a choice shows a new fluidity in race in a diversifying America, a place where the rigid racial structures that defined most of this country’s history seems, for some, to be falling to the wayside. (Anthony Quintano/NBC News via AP)

EDITORIAL: Rachel Dolezal: Identifying with delusion

Wishful thinking has its uses. It can ward off the blues, encourage ambition, and even entertain (in small doses). But wishful thinking is, after all, only a daydream. It can't turn water into wine, a fumble into a touchdown, or a white woman into a black woman, however hard she may wish it so. There's reality, sometimes dull and sometimes painful, but real all the same. Wishful thinking can deteriorate into delusion, and that's not good.

June 17, 2015
President Obama speaks in Washington on June 9, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: Obama must deal with Syria’s chemical weapons

President Obama warned in August 2012 that Syria must not cross his "red line" against using chemical weapons against the rebels — or else. President Bashar Assad has continued to cross Mr. Obama's red line, and we're still waiting to see the "else."

June 17, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Liz Hunt

Liz Hunt's husband, Rob, was medically retired in 2014 after struggling with declining health, the result of severe chronic migraines, spinal damage, cognitive and memory issues, nerve damage, multiple traumatic brain injuries, as well as nightmares and PTSD. On his worst days, Rob needs emergency medical care to manage his pain. But that's not what the public sees when they look at him. They don't see the accumulation of physical and mental injuries that resulted from his 28 years of service. Rob's wounds are largely invisible to them, with the only outward clue being his use of a cane on days when his gate is unstable.

June 16, 2015
FILE - The Supreme Court Building is shown in this, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 file photo in Washington. Prosecutors are taking a hard line with demonstrators who participated in a rare disruption inside the U.S. Supreme Court, adding additional charges against them and saying disrupting the high court is different from other protests in the nation’s capital. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

EDITORIAL: American divided on abortion

Abortion is the unresolved issue in American politics. The U.S. Supreme Court thought it settled the issue with its Roe v. Wade decision in 1972, but lawsuits questioning the specifics of how a woman can terminate a pregnancy continue to flood the dockets of lower courts across the nation. Occasionally a case still winds up before the high court as well. Lives, black and white, matter, and issues of life and death carry profound moral significance that continue to challenge judges. Conscience is innate, not a creation of the state.

June 16, 2015