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Today's Opinions

  • Good News, Bad News -Elections in the Middle East

    The Middle East has long been a region full of turmoil and instability. It’s an area that the United States has a special interest in, whether it is our steadfast support for Israel or ensuring energy supplies are delivered out of the Middle East to avoid fuel and energy shortages. Over the past few weeks, several elections have occurred in the Middle East that could be indicators of how the region feels toward the United States.

  • Don't be ungrateful and miss your blessings

    French philosopher Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé once said, “Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.”

    As a columnist, I feel my job is more than to entertain. It’s also to pinpoint things in hopes to make life a little more better and understandable.

  • Never lower yourself to someone else's high standards

    This past week, I was on my way to have lunch with a friend. While getting ready, I had the television turned on, listening intently in the background.

  • Remembering Our Soldiers on Memorial Day

    We recently commemorated Memorial Day in honor of our brave men and women who fought and died for our freedom.  

    As I watched the flags of each branch of our armed services hoisted and lowered to half-mast at the War Memorial at our local courthouse and listened to each theme song played for each one, I got cold chills as Taps was played for our fallen soldiers.

  • A Look Ahead to the 2010 Elections

    The ink on election certificates has just dried for the winners from the November elections last year. It was a historic year for Republicans in Tennessee.

  • The email that changed my life forever

    Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a very bipartisan person; a “to each his own“type of individual. I am someone who doesn’t require my readers to believe exactly how I believe or tell my readers they have to agree with without exception.

    However, I feel as though I have a responsibility to my readers to help enlighten them and teach them how to look at their world as being a little bit more tolerable than what they’re used to. Also, when something touches me in such a profound way, it makes me want to share it with everyone.    

  • A salute to the all- American teacher

    It’s finally here: the end of yet another year of school in all its glory.

    I remember fondly the excitement that generated from summer vacation drawing near. I’d get to sleep in and go to bed a little later than usual, go to a relative’s house that had a swimming pool, washing away all the summertime blues, and let’s not forget the anticipation surrounding Fourth of July festivities.