Human beings once trod the moon. The first time man stepped foot on the lunar surface was 50 years tomorrow (July 20, 1969). Apollo 11, a marvel of mankind’s scientific reach, was followed by six successful moon landings. Man last walked on the moon in…
9 a.m., Saturday. You’re inside your living room when a black pickup cruises past your home slowly. The couple inside the truck is eyeballing your home, scoping out the scene. Good thing you’ve installed a surveillance cam on the front porch. Are they porch pirates?…
The media love conflict, and the current fights among Democrats —in the House of Representatives and on the presidential campaign trail—are irresistible for us journalists. And so many of Trump’s outrages are treated not as the moral disgraces they are but as campaign strategy. As…
“We have to get the best people,” said Donald Trump when asked before he got to the Oval Office how he’d go about staffing his administration. “We need to get the best and the finest, and, if we don’t, we’ll be in trouble for a long…
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, both trusted White House aides, crossed into North Korea with Trump and strongman Kim Jong-un last week. And where was national security adviser John Bolton? The foreign-policy hawk was on his way to Mongolia—which…
To the Editor: The underlined problem with increased traffic is obvious to me. You just need to look to find the culprit: River Road. The increased traffic on River Road makes people look for other routes. I started to notice it years ago when coming…
The celebration of American independence is supposed to be a unifying national ritual. But we are a country with profound differences over the meaning of nationhood itself. People in more typical countries —such as Belgium, Japan or Russia—are attached primarily to a unique piece of…
Should there be a gathering of Americans including Bernie Sanders (77 years old), Joe Biden (76), Donald Trump (73), Elizabeth Warren (70) and this opinion writer. It’s argued that Keizertimes readers would judge us to be a group of older white guys who are close…
Personal privacy is a triggering issue for most Americans. They don’t want the government, business or people they don’t know to go rooting around their lives. The privacy issue takes on a different face when it comes to a loved one, especially when technology, such…