Category: Opinion

Dear Editor, Again, some right-wing extremists want to cast liberals as hating the “national Constitution”, “the founders”, and “capitalism”, and “wish for or promote socialism, communism, and/or Marxism.” This is according to Mr. Heck’s letter appearing in The Standard’s Sept. 15 edition titled “Sizing up the magnitude of the American problem.” I hope people notice how he cleverly skirts the fact that Fox News has some 9,000 employees, or that some of their on-air personalities have been censured. Tucker Carlson for being untruthful, Laura Ingraham for insulting a Parkland shooting survivor, or Jeanine Pierro for some of her rhetoric. How…

Dear Editor, Chris Snow—standing in the dark beside his stalled truck a quarter mile from an attempted burglary committed by 2 strangers he had driven in kindness—was arrested, jailed, and convicted by a jury, and is soon to be sentenced in Mohave County Superior Court. Released after last Dec. until now Sept., this homeless Kingman visitor has had to live off local kindness, trapped by due process and awaiting trial. Chris Snow was passed between 3 Public Defenders after he refused to plead guilty. The third attempted to trial by jury without success. At the same time, a murder trial…

Dear Editor, A blank stare of disbelief with a side of ugly premonition. The major news stories have fizzled out – for now – but that’s how I’ve digested the United States’ final stages of military withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover that ensued this summer. The suicide attacks that killed 13 U.S. servicemembers and the chaotic evacuation of Americans and Afghan refugees made me feel like punching my laptop screen. As a former military reporter and civilian journalist for more than ten years, the circus sideshow made me want to share a few of my experiences and observations…

Dear Editor, This is what we need to do when sin comes pounding on our heart’s door. Don’t open the door of your heart to sin, no matter how attractive it is. Genesis 19: 22-26 says: “’Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou become thither.’ Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the…

Dear Editor, This is what we need to do when sin comes pounding on our heart’s door. Don’t open the door of your heart to sin, no matter how attractive it is. Genesis 19: 22-26 says: “’Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou become thither.’ Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the…

Dear Editor, Matthew 12: 39-41 says: “But he answered and said unto them ‘An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in whale’s belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.” Let’s…