by design | Jul 6, 2026 | Columnist, Pratt
By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor In 1889, a tragic engineering failure occurred at the South Fork Dam in Pennsylvania. The dam held back millions of tons of water and had been neglected for years. Important safeguards had been removed, and...
by design | Jul 6, 2026 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector Two weeks ago, my iPhone dinged at midnight. Sleepy-eyed, I looked at it and saw that my phone provider was sending a verification code. My thoughts were to leave it alone and take care of it in the morning. Throughout the night, I received...
by design | Jul 6, 2026 | Columnist, Ferguson
Socialists and communists don’t make things; they take things. Greg Gutfeld By Dr. Jim Ferguson By the time you read this essay, the 250th anniversary of America’s founding will have passed, but the Ferguson clan remains proud to be Americans. To commemorate our...
by design | Jul 6, 2026 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly In another long-ago lifetime, I was a daily blogger for the local newspaper, along with writing a weekly column much like this one. The task was to write commentaries each week on various happenings in the daily world of sports I thought might be of...
by design | Jul 5, 2026 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley “Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms...
by design | Jul 5, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Joseph Irwin France was not at all a conventional politician, especially for his time. Depending upon one’s point of view, France could be seen as either a visionary or an eccentric. Senator France was adamantly against ratifying the Treaty of Versailles,...
