TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is the 22nd day of 2021 and the 33rd day of winter. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1901, Britain’s Queen Victoria died at age 81, after a then-record 63-year reign. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in the Roe v. Wade case, legalizing elective abortion nationwide.

TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is the 19th day of 2021 and the 30th day of winter. TODAY'S HISTORY In 1915, two German zeppelins dropped bombs on the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in England. In 1966, Indira Gandhi was elected as India's first woman prime minister.

Hoping this will be the last time

The City of Clinton’s mask ordinance that was put in place Nov. 17 to try and help slow the spread of COVID-19 will expire at the end of this month – unless the city council votes to extend it.

Republicans saying enough is enough

"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United “ States of his office and his oath to the Constitution," said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) in announcing she would vote to impeach President Trump.

Removing a president who isn’t president?

How do you remove an expresident? He's already gone. That is the bizarre question posed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's quest to re-impeach Trump with just a few days left in his term.

The peril of having false idols

On the morning of Jan. 5, a best-selling Christian author posted a picture of the Egyptian Coptic martyrs who were beheaded on a beach in Libya in 2015. Above the photo, the author asked: "What price are you willing to pay for what you believe in?" That's an excellent question I ask myself often.

Learning from what happened in D.C.

As we watched events unfold in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, we were sickened when a violent mob tried to overtake the United States Capitol.

Putting my old calendar to good use

Every year I've lived in this house, I've gotten a cloth calendar, hung from a dowel. My mother's mother always had a cloth calendar hanging in the farmhouse kitchen.

On the day democracy wept

Cry, the beloved country. There have been multiple American moments of great drama since World War II. Movements to extend rights to minorities, women, the disabled and gays, assassinations, terrorist attack and scandals.

Here’s to new life in the new year

The current president of Planned Parenthood is unafraid to use the word "abortion." In a Christmasseason interview with The Washington Post, Alexis McGill Johnson scolded those who would downplay the importance of abortion in her organization's work. She says it is "stigmatizing" to do so.