What if the assassin's bullet had hit its intended victim, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt? Americans would have turned anxious eyes to Vice President-elect John Nance Garner. ...more

February 3, 2008

Mr. Gulledge had his facts wrong as several letter writers pointed out. Not to gang up on him, but he also offered an opinion that he may wish to reconsider. He opined that Oprah Winfrey endorsed Sen. Obama because both are black. With that line of thinking, her endorsement of Sen. Clinton, likely her second choice, would have been because both are women. ...more

January 1, 2008

Regarding Randy Ludacer's comments in the Nov. 19 Highlands Today: Far left liberals enjoy flaunting their hatred for Bush with their attacks on every possible front, but that seems to be their way. I disagree with much that the administration has brought on but it is ludicrously deceptive to attack the secrecy issue with such zest as the left does. It is reflective of their defeatism for this or any other war. The fallacy of these attacks is the fact that there have been zero cases of any form of intimidation of our citizens for the seven years we've had the Patriot Act. I do challenge you to present one. Would the left like to say that their party would not have enacted some similar form of control over terrorist activity if they were in power? But then, they just may do that, being trapped by their own tirades against secrecy of any kind while the Republicans were at the helm. Do they dare say the Democrats have no history of secrecy in wartime? There are many such occurrences, including the FDR order to not reveal the number of deaths during World War II operations, and would anyone really dare to say that the Democrats did not then have secret operations. How dare they make plans concerning an enemy and not tell us all about it? ...more

December 4, 2007

The Kremlin, its political consultants and state-controlled news media have found an American to admire: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ...more

October 19, 2007