I have always sung it and heard it the way my schoolteacher grandmother taught it, not just as a vehicle for us to sing the blues about our suffering and victimization as a people, but as a rallying cry to our resilience and determination.

As far as know, we have nothing to fear from little green men. It’s the hostile civilization on the other side of the planet that we have to worry about, and balloons are the least of it.

Beijing’s aggressive agenda must be opposed, or the threat will spread to the point we might not be able to deter them. Backing measures to keep China from buying up American land is a good place to start, even while monitoring the skies for more balloons.

He is a Navy veteran; a career lawyer known for his unstinting commitment to the rights of minorities; a justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court who dissented frequently from the majority; a passionate lover of animals; a skilled lifelong jazz sax player; and a devoted husband, father and grandfather.

Biden selected Harris in the first place because he needed the qualities that she brought to the ticket. He still does.

Cutting off the Ukrainians in the hopes of jump-starting negotiations would be folly and only benefit a Vladimir Putin who, if he had his druthers, would bring a bloody-minded peace of repression and vastation to Ukraine.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said more in her short speech than President Biden said in his long one.

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot launched last November designed to mimic human conversation.