February is Black History Month. Topics include Reverend Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jim Crow laws, civil rights demonstrations, segregation and slavery. In declaring February 2015, “National African American History Month,” President Obama said, “Brave Americans did not struggle and sacrifice to secure fundamental rights for themselves and others only to see those rights denied…

In: Handing our enemy our battle plans. Out: The inability to call our enemy by name. Imagine if Franklin Roosevelt had let the Nazi’s know Allied forces were going to invade Fortress Europe in early June 1944 by landing a Normandy. It’s doubtful that the Allies would have won the war. The Obama Administration is…

Comedian George Carlin joked about the seven words you couldn’t say on air. Add two more — “Islam” and “Muslim” — but only if you use them in a less-than-flattering context. President Obama proved this while giving an interview to the website Vox. “It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when…

The headline on the Las Vegas Review Journal’s Facebook page reads, “Fiore takes heat over ‘hot little girls’ gun comment.” It’s by Sandra Chereb, who writes: “The Nevada Assembly minority leader called on a GOP assemblywoman to apologize for comments she made in The New York times about rape, concealed weapons and women on college…

ISIS/ISIL has now burned 45 people to death in the Iraqi town al-Baghdadi. Some of the victims are security guards from nearby al-Asad Air Base. The group seized much of the town last week. It’s also five miles away from the base, the recent site of ISIS/ISIL suicide bomber attacks, where about 300 U.S. Marines…

Everett Police are identifying the suspect in a shooting that took two lives and left a woman hospitalized. Tye Fleischer is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault. Killed were Kevin Odneal and Denny Halverson. The injured woman was struck in the pelvis and is expected to survive. Officers…

Nevada has more than 80 prison inmates on death row, but no one’s been put to death since 2006 and no executions are scheduled. Now state prisons Chief Greg Cox wants $800,000 to build a death chamber at Ely State Prison about 35 miles west of the Utah line and another $7.6 million for a…

“My niece was walking out the door when the guy got out of his van and just started shooting everybody,” writes my friend, Jocelyn Warriner. “I’ve lost a wonderful person in my life. Her two daughters have lost a wonderful mom and my sister lost great daughter.” “You will be missed Denny, rest in peace,”…

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Henry Sprague on January 26, 1900, while serving as New York’s governor. More than 115-years later, a video shows the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages by ISIS/ISIL in Libya. The 21 men, all in orange jumpsuits, were marched along a beach in…

Her name is Jessica Liesmann, but she’s better known as “Mama Bear,” or the woman who confronted an armed car thief after he rammed into her mini-van in Texas. And now, she’s been ‘rewarded’ with a new vehicle. “A high-speed police chase came to a dramatic end Wednesday in North Dallas when the driver rear-ended…