Congratulations on the Fact Check article by Matt Apuzzo in the July 11 edition of your paper. It is refreshing to see an article that presents the facts of both sides of a story. All too often the articles, editorials and letters are tirades about the writer's personal opinions, not backed by anything except possibly his religion, the internet "they said" or simply "since I say it is so, it is." Unfortunately, writing a "fact" article requires a lot of research and an open mind, which is a rare quality. ...more

July 15, 2009

Lorne H. Spence of Hudson is tired of criticism of President Barack Obama by syndicated columnist Rich Lowry. ...more

March 6, 2009

The Big 12 Conference suspended coach Texas Tech coach Pat Knight for Wednesday's game against Texas for complaining about the officials after a loss to Texas A&M over the weekend. ...more

February 24, 2009

Soon after the November election, al-Qaida's No. 2 leader took stock of America's new president-elect and dismissed him with an insulting epithet. "A house Negro," Ayman al-Zawahiri said. ...more

January 26, 2009

Keith Lane rambled on for 10 minutes, trying to convince Circuit Judge Thane Covert that he was worthy of mercy. ...more

October 25, 2008

By 2006, Karen Lane had endured years of unreported manipulation, threats and abuse at the hands of her husband, Keith. ...more

September 18, 2008

I grew up in the rural South where passions ran deep about "the horrible Yankees who invaded our territory and destroyed a way of life." As I got older and studied the Civil War, I realized the reasons the war was fought were more complicated than the emotional tirades I heard as a child. ...more

August 10, 2008

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is killing any dreams Sen. Barack Obama may have had to be elected this nation's first African-American president. ...more

May 4, 2008

Re: Drugging of children a diversion? So, is this to say also, that the men and women of today who are taking Prozac and other meds to treat anxiety, depression, etc. are taking something that isn't needed? I am certain that there are those parents who give the child something to just calm him/her down when unruly, but there are very real cases out there that can not go with out being treated with meds. ...more

January 26, 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