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Memorial Day reflection

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: As a kid, each Memorial Day I stood next to Dad in the sun, rain and cold with hand placed over my heart. I remember listening to veterans’ names being read-off as the wind weaved through the cemetery’s quaking aspens, as if they were whispering to me. I will again place hand over heart, with my eyes welling up as my Dad, Uncles, and other Veterans’ names are called. I know this resonates with many of you. Dad didn’t share many World War II experiences, but I learned he landed on Europe’s shore four days after D-Day and fought throughout Europe. One of ...

Do we still have a constitution?

Columns

This week, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to give away tax dollars without congressional or judicial authorization to his friends and allies whom he believes were mistreated by the Biden administration. Can he legally do that? Here is the backstory. During the last year of ...

Can Trump handle the world he has changed?

Columns

Ten years ago this month, Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination for president, with a platform that was vastly different on trade and foreign policy from other recent presidents, Republican and Democratic alike. How fares America — and the world — 10 years later? In some ...

No Nobel Peace Prize, but definitely an Oscar and an Emmy for Trump

Columns

Today, one has to assume that President Donald Trump does not see himself winning the Nobel Peace Prize anytime soon. But, an Oscar and an Emmy? Yes, without any doubt. He has been America's Best Actor in a Drama and Best Director of a Reality TV Show. After all, a man who has threatened to ...

Does it matter what Helen of Troy looked like?

Columns

It's the controversy that has launched a thousand X posts. Elon Musk, who is a fan of Homer, has kicked up a fuss by objecting to filmmaker Christopher Nolan casting the black actress Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy in his forthcoming movie version of "The Odyssey." The epic production ...

Never forget what Memorial Day stands for

Editorial

For a great many in Superiorland and beyond, technology has made war seem like something of a video game. We read of remote-controlled “drones” killing our enemies. We watch videotapes of “smart” bombs blowing up bunkers. The rare footage we see of combat involving rifle fire, rocket-propelled grenades and house-to-house fighting rarely shows anyone being hit. We civilians prefer not to be reminded of the horror of war. But those who have served us in uniform and those now in harm’s way are all too familiar with the reality of war. It is not something they discuss freely with ...