Opinion

Happy Birthday America! 2020 has not exactly been a smooth road. Your soldiers are still fighting in the Middle East, the coronavirus has claimed the lives of thousands and your citizens are rioting in the streets for justice. Yet, Americans are still strong and millions are uniting for peace...

This Sunday is Father’s Day and, in keeping with tradition, I would like to tell you about my father ­– the man I live my life trying to make proud even though he’s been with the Heavenly Father for the past 30 years. My father, Clarence Hubert Brand, was a man who made many mistakes, but he never denied a single one. ...

He never starred on the silver screen, but he shined in the lives of everyone who knew him. My dad, known to his friends for many years simple as "Goob," was the king of the neighborhood and a father to the world. He never met a stranger and he never over-heard a conservation he couldn't quickly become a part of...

Before he became President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt served as police commissioner on the New York Police Department. During his two-year tenure as a police commissioner he made aggressive efforts to modernize the department and remove all tentacles of corrupting political influences...