Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Where are we as a Superpower
Editor: I am paraphrasing the following editorial from The Air Force Association Magazine. As many readers know I was a member of the Air Force and jet Pilot from November 1963 and released from a...
Letter to the Editor: Why I will continue this conversation unapologetically
Dear Editor,The reason why I will not drop the conversation about the Covid "vaccines", is because the elites in this world and our federal government are trying to control the American people. Not ju...
Reading my mind: EasyBaking
A few months ago, the microwave that I had been saving until my old one died, finally came out of the box. It was the Coca-Cola red color, which I am so over now. That’s how long I had been waiting ...
Letter to the Editor: We the people deserve answers!
Dear Editor, There has been a lot of controversy over these vaccines & mandates, & it's only getting worse. Our government should not be censoring us, keeping information from us, &a...
Letter to the Editor: Living in the Present - Remembering the KIA
Dear Editor One day before Veterans Day my thoughts flow back to my time on Active Air Force Service. I served in Strategic Air Command as a Squadron CoPilot on KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft...
Letter to the Editor: Fear, the Democrat's tool of choice
It’s a powerful emotion that can allow a person to recall a single instant in time . . . It can
turn them into a quivering mass of flesh . . . It can make them cower . . . It can “change
their m...
Reading my mind: Goodbyes
The older a person gets, the more you say goodbye. I know that's probably obvious. But sometimes you don't realize that you're officially getting old until you start counting up how many there h... What happens in Vinton...stays in Vinton
Supposedly wind took out some of our Scarecrows, at least that's what one of them told me. But another of them said that the food was great, but the party was even better. Saturday these Scarecro... Letter to the Editor: Response
Response to Darrin Lindsey -Sure . . . let's get our "facts" in order. First, I never said that a militia was defined in the Constitution. Its meaning was simply understood. Britain had a tradition of...
Letter to the Editor:2nd Amendment Sanctuary Counties, Can there be such a thing
Yesterday, October 12th, 2021 Benton County became the 23rd of 99 Iowa counties to become a "2nd Amendment Sanctuary County". Just what does that mean exactly? The paragraph in the resolution that mos...