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Opinion

Living under the threat of divorce

Columns

Dear Annie: I am a 69-year-old man who is still totally and madly in love with my wife of 49 years. I know many people would say I’m foolish for feeling this way after she cheated on me several times during the early years of our marriage. At the time, I blamed myself. We were young, I felt ...

All the world is watching

Letters

To the editor: I listened to 47’s address at the World Economic Forum. I’d like a redacted copy of his speech. The redactions would be for the lies and insults that he uttered with machine gun rapidity. When those blackouts would be completed, the redacted text would sound like an opera ...

The League of Women Voters empowering voters

Columns

The League of Women Voters grew out of eighty years of protest. In 1890, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed with the sole purpose of securing the right to vote for women. When this goal was achieved in 1919, NAWSA merged with the National Council of Women ...

Authentic faith inherently political

Columns

Sometimes I imagine heaven as the church basement of my childhood. I grew up in a picturesque Southern California town nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, where our bustling non‑denominational evangelical church seemed to anchor the community. The church basement was ...

Press ignoring abortions

Letters

To the editor: The late Jesse Jackson declared in an article he wrote for Right to Life News in 1977.  “Race and poverty are dimensions of the life question, but discussions about abortion have brought the issue into focus in a much sharper way. How we will respect and understand the ...

Conducting amateur archeology

Columns

I have been doing a bit of amateur archeology lately, digging deep, excavating through layers of an all-but-forgotten past. This process is sometimes painful as it causes me to review the awful fashion and haircut choices I made when I was growing up. Digging through old family photos can ...