This article should really hit home. Here in New Jersey, a lot of women look at employment careers as the only way to become something. I’ve heard many times that being a mother shouldn’t be their identity. I think we have it wrong. Being a parent is the best thing we can do. Your job,…

I have to correct some misleading information provided in a letter by Dr. Boyles [in “The Readers’ Turn”] about the active ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate. While he is correct that glyphosate is a herbicide (weed killer) and not a pesticide, he is wrong about its use in our food chain. It is applied not only…

The current argument in favor of mandating masks, vaccines, and lockdowns due to SARS COVID-19 is that it is more important to safeguard the health of the general public than their innate freedom to decide what happens to their own bodies. If this is true, then why is it okay for women to have abortions,…

As someone who has dedicated much of my life to the study of history, and as someone who acknowledges that changes are constantly taking place, I offer the following observations. Our country is currently experiencing turmoil eerily reminiscent of developments in other countries in dark times. Power-hungry forces have all too frequently generated movements categorized…

Eric Bess’s piece on page B8 [“Against All Odds: The Courage of Washington Crossing the Delaware,” in the July 28–Aug. 3 edition] is well done and succinctly describes the story behind the painting and the historical events that drove Emanuel Leutze to portray it in his painting. The events in 1776 that preceded the crossing,…

Last Monday was our monthly meeting of the Athens, Tennessee S.A.R. (Sons of the American Revolution). I am a member, courtesy of Allen Howard, who fought with George Washington when he was 18 years old. The Howard family came to Virginia in 1635 to find freedom and a better way of life than Britain had…

I’m disappointed that Speaker Pelosi has rejected prospective members submitted by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Pelosi should take her cue from the late Sen. Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) when he chaired the “Watergate Committee” in 1973–74. Sen. Ervin agreed to include Sen. Edward Gurney (R-Fla.), a vocal supporter of Richard Nixon, on the committee. He understood…

Freedom. It is sad that we don’t hear too much coming out of Washington right now about freedom for Americans. In these United States, we have the freedom to worship a Creator in many different ways, or not at all, if that is our choice. In the United States, we are free to create something…

I really enjoyed the union article by Mark Hendrickson [“The Economics and Politics of the Pro-Union Protecting the Right to Organize Act,” in the July 14–20, 2021, edition]. Yes, I sure can relate to the unions and how lousy most of them are. I feel that they did some good back in the early 1900s,…

Responding to Tim Klenk’s and Duncan Evans’s comments on Jean Chen’s article on evolution [“A Mom’s Research: A Deep Dive Into Evolution,” in the June 30–July 6, 2021, edition]: Darwin was an excellent scientist when dealing with mundane things such as pigeon breeding. However, every time he tries to extrapolate human breeding of animals into…