The youth leader who worked for change

The Dictionary.com definition for “centrifuge” offers this: “An apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.”It was a strange name in the late 1970s for a Southern Baptist Convention youth leadership project.

Country’s present obscures its future

The future is another country, glimpsed only faintly in the distance, its contours difficult to discern, its political landscape hard to imagine – especially at a time when the nation is consumed with a war in the Middle East, inflation in economic affairs and quickly changing domestic...

No luck involved to live here

It might sound a little counter intuitive to dismiss the notion of “luck” in what has been branded the “Lucky to Live in Clinton” edition. No, instead of luck, it’s a blessing to live in Clinton.I guess it all depends upon how someone personally interprets the word “luck.

Narrowing tax base won’t fund programs

One of the most consequential trends in American politics is that Democrats are increasingly discovering what Republicans have known for decades: Voters don’t like taxes.

Hope may be all that Trump has left

PALM BEACH, Fla. – Suddenly Donald Trump, who arguably has some mastery of the business arts, is in defiance of one of the fundamental principles of his trade: Hope is not a strategy.We’re not talking Jesse Jackson- style hope, which actually was a strategy. (“Keep hope alive” was a rallying cry.

Don’t skip this survey opportunity

Everyone has been there before. At the conclusion of a meal or after completing a transaction comes the plea asking people to take part in a voluntary survey.And everyone knows it’s an opportunity to quickly opt out or decline the opportunity.

President Trump does not have a plan

When President Donald Trump ordered an armada of naval vessels, fighter planes, bombers and high-tech surveillance drones to the Middle East, he thought he had the answer to decades of tension and terrorism from Iran. He may well be right.

Where will future roads lead?

Well, the answer to the headline is undoubtably Clinton, Okla. The potential is ripe. Now that ripeness could refer to sweet fruit or the ripeness of another sort that makes people outright hold their nose. Where things stand when the proverbial dust settles will depend upon the efforts of many.

Iran war has no goal and no end in sight

There will be no quick or easy wins – even on U.S. and Israeli terms. They have celebrated assassinating Iran’s supreme leader; their offensive has also killed more than 1,000 civilians so far, including scores of children, according to a U.S.-based rights group.

Total war emerges from the fog

This is the moment when total war meets the fog of war.Not in tiny steps but in one great leap, the United States has triggered, and itself soon will experience, a frightful period of total war that extends far beyond the Middle East. And it is occurring in the usual impenetrable fog of war.