Opinion

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor agreed with her colleagues that the Court should deny review in a true-threat case out of Florida, involving a man who uttered, while drunk, that he could blow up a liquor store.

I just finished reading a new book, and liberal race-hustlers and cop-haters are having a cow over it. Get a load of some of the “outrageous!” things this author wrote…

On behalf of Desert Haven Animal Society, I want to thank the generous supporters of our booth at the Balloon Festival held February 24-26, 2017. Through their generous donations we had a very successful fundraising event. Our heartfelt thanks go to following businesses that helped us in our efforts to ensure the well-being of the animals in our care:

In 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court in its Roe v. Wade decision ruled that most state laws outlawing abortion violated a woman’s right of privacy. The decision swept out dozens of laws across the nation.

In a commentary (PVT 3/1/17), “The immigration enforcement police state is here,” Thomas L. Knapp suggests that maintaining sovereign borders is tantamount to tyranny. He goes on to say: “Where peaceful people move to settle or work is nobody’s business but theirs.” And wouldn’t the world be a far better place if we only made love, not war? Regrettably, the history of nation states is a testament to how little regard there is for that kind of sentiment.

The article last week pointing out the great number of signs that proliferate on our roadways drew a large reaction from readers.

This letter is in response to Tim Burke’s article in the February 22 edition of your newspaper. While I am in agreement with him regarding some of the signs that dominate the Highway 160 corridor, large commercial signs of this type dot the landscape of many roadways leading into towns like ours throughout the country.

Every new administration is full of a plethora of policy priorities.

Back in 1968, ABC launched a new crime drama series called “The Mod Squad” which featured three undercover cops – “one black, one white and one blonde.” This year conservatives have their own version of the Mod Squad hitting the streets and airwaves.

On Feb. 8, a group of Latino men was leaving an overnight hypothermia shelter at Rising Hope Mission Church in Alexandria, Virginia, when they were surrounded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, arrested and taken away in vans.