In the dog days of summer, when the news dries up even as the humidity soars, it can be tough to find a current crisis over which to obsess. So we must turn to our earnest statisticians, always ready to furnish bored journalists with a fresh batch of state-by-state comparisons around which to ...
“Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong.” This line from West Point’s Cadet Prayer sums up the career of one of my role models, the late Senator John McCain. While sorting-out the estate of my late father-in-law, in an antique shop in nearby Arcadia, Florida, I ...
The buildup to Tuesday’s start of confirmation hearings for President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee has promised a knock-down, drag-out fight from the get-go. And the proceedings got off to a chaotic start as Democrats pushed to adjourn, and protesters repeatedly ...
News-Sentinel.com has twice editorialized in recent weeks in defense of journalists in the wake of President Trump’s continued attacks on the media in general as perpetrators of “fake news.” Our defense has been that most journalists are professionals with ethical standards of ...
In response to Leo Morris’ editorial, “Confessions of an Anti-Straw Man” on August 23, 2018: Mr. Morris, Thank you for helping to make the point of our #nostrawplease campaign. You are correct that plastic straws only make up a small amount of the total plastic pollution in our ...
Many think the racial tension in America is worse than ever, but an event in Georgia on Saturday organized by the OneRace movement had churches taking the lead in trying to heal the fracture dividing this nation. And we believe the church should be at the forefront in promoting unity between ...
Indiana Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly is a brave politician who went against his party to support President Donald Trump’s demands for billions of dollars to build a border wall. So says one of his campaign ads. No, no, no, insist attack ads aimed against him. Donnelly supported amnesty for ...
We live in an age where it seems that we rely on the media to tell us who is good and who is bad, who is worthy of our adulation and who deserves condemnation. We are subjected to a variety of award shows whereas entertainment elites honor each other while making earnest attempts to educate the ...
The mayor of Chicago has responded to the city’s current state of violence by making recent statements that have outraged Democrats and the black community in particular. Members of his own political party are calling on Democrat Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff, to ...
I wrote about my dad in this space six years, two months and one week ago — the day before Father’s Day, 2012. He was 90 years old. Dad died last week, less than 11 weeks before his 97th birthday. My column in 2012 was a tribute to the man who helped shape my character and instill in me ...
Citizens need to promote morality I am so tired of what is going on in this country…so very sad. A nation representing every country in the world is being split apart… by what? Not racism. Not terrorists, but by our own people. By lies and evil. When President Obama was elected, we who ...
As a good conservative, I naturally start each day vowing to do everything I can to help destroy the planet. I have never, ever recycled a single thing, since recycling is of course a Communist plot designed to divert our attention so our neglected landfills can be captured. I proudly display ...
Some recent letters to the editor in this and other newspapers have complained about the common practice of people mowing their lawns and blowing grass clippings onto roads or sidewalks. There are various reasons why it’s a bad idea. The City of Fort Wayne warns that when grass clippings are ...
One of the driving forces behind the operation of newspapers in the United States is the public’s right to know. But the Indiana Department of Environmental Management wants to stop using newspapers to inform Hoosiers about issues that could have a significant impact on their health, and ...
The defacement of Jewish temple property in Carmel with Nazi symbols seems to have created a tipping point in favor of finally enacting a hate crimes law in Indiana. Business leaders, editorial pages and politicians up to and including the governor are urging swift action in the next session of ...
The grand jury report that revealed decades of sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania adds to the litany of such heinous actions within the church nationwide. But while the Catholic Church obviously has a long way to go to deal with what it calls a “moral ...
Republican tax cuts benefit families Our family will save nearly $2,000 this year from Republican tax cuts passed by President Trump and our Congressman Jim Banks. Our take home pay has also risen due to bonuses and higher wages because of the strong economic and job growth in northeast ...
A grand jury report in Pennsylvania has revealed that something very wrong has been going on within the Catholic Church in that state for a very long time that must be stopped. Priests who are sexual predators have violated the trust and vulnerability of children and devastated their ...
Making sense of Mike Pence. That was the task I faced during the past year in writing “Pence — The Path to Power,” the first comprehensive biography of the Hoosier vice president. He is a man of both predictability and paradox. Since first running for Congress in 1988, he has never ...
For more than 185 years, The News-Sentinel has been Fort Wayne’s source of trusted news. We are not “fake news.” President Donald Trump’s ongoing battle with several national media outlets through use of the terms “fake news” and “enemy of the people” needs to end. Using a ...