Are Veterans the Heroes Who Keep On Giving?

Danny Tyree welcomes email responses at tyreetyrades@aol.com. I’m not complaining, but after 23 years of column writing, it becomes increasingly challenging to find new angles for recurring events, such as Mother’s Day or Memorial Day. So, when it came...

What a Difference a Word Makes!

Dr. Arthur C. Donart, Ph. D. wrote this essay. I use to be on the Editorial Board of Timely Issues in Education while I was an Assistant Professor of English at Western Illinois University in Macomb.  There were three of us, and we read all articles that were...

Democracy Doesn’t Work Well, Unless It Is Democratic

Dr. Arthur C. Donart, Ph. D. wrote this essay. I have long believed voting in our elections is a sacred duty.  I am a Korean Conflict Veteran and was unable to vote until I was 21 years of age.  In the midst of the Vietnam War we constantly would hear the argument,...

Abortion:  Confession of a Pro-Life Turncoat

This essay was written by Dr. Arthur C. Donart, Ph. I grew up in a pre-Vatican II Catholic Church.  I studied for the Priesthood in a Franciscan minor seminary for two years.  There, one learns not to question authority, or Church teaching for that matter.  We...

It Was Always Going to End This Way in Afghanistan

Dick Polman, a veteran National political Columnist based in Philadelphia and a Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, writes at DickPolman.net.  Email  dickpolman7@gmail.com. Anyone who professes to be shocked by the Taliban victory in Afghanistan has...