In carrying out its attack on Israel, Hamas was furthering the work of Hitler’s Third Reich in exterminating the Jewish people. Adolph Eichman, the architect of the Holocaust, whose ashes ironically lie on the seabed off the Mediterranean coast of Israel would have been proud of them. My wife ...

I recently read that redheads will not exist by the end of this century. Holy Clairol! The story went on to say that between one and two percent of the world’s population is redheaded. Well, if current world population is approximately 8 billion, let’s say that 1.5% of that number is ...

My academic specialty is the Native American. One thing that always bothered me about our Christian government’s treatment of indigenous people is that when it was through depriving them of millions of acres of productive land, breaking more than 300 treaties, removing (Cherokee) them to ...

Soon after you cross into Maryland from Pennsylvania on I-70, you will find signs to Winchester, Virginia. It was from here that Union General Philip Sheridan made his famous ride to rally his troops and beat the Confederate forces led by Confederate General Jubal Early during the Civil ...

I have a soft spot for engineers and engineering. It started with my father. He called himself an engineer, even though he left school at 13 in a remote corner of Zimbabwe and went to work in an auto repair shop. By the time I remember his work clearly, in the 1950s, he was amazingly ...

On Oct. 7, Chautauqua County Office for Aging Services and the American Society on Aging celebrated Ageism Awareness Day. This day provides an opportunity to draw attention to the existence and impact of ageism in our society. We live in an aging society, but unfortunately too many of us view ...