Rebuilding Together
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Skeptics like me don’t believe in miracles, even when we see them. But I saw one last month. It wasn’t a dramatic parting of the sea or an…
Category: Opinion / Editorial
Foreign Policy is Domestic Policy, Rubio Advises
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer NEW YORK–In a stirring and substantive foreign policy address, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) presented his presidential vision for a new America. Calling for transformative leadership in…
British Conservatives Sweep Back to Power/Defy Naysayers
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS–Defying dire polls, deflating many media pundits, and derailing a left-wing lurch from the Labor Party, Prime Minister David Cameron Conservative Party swept back into power…
Killings, Censorship, Control, Define New Media Landscape
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS—The targeted killings of journalists, the suffocating censorship in many countries, and the widening governmental controls on media activities, characterize the contemporary media landscape in large…
Pakistan Key Piece in China’s Wider Great Game
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS–The rhetoric reached the heights of the Himalayas, the pomp and pageantry evoked that of an operetta, but the political optics delivered a clearly focused political…
It’s Time For Reality Day
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer April showers might bring May flowers, but the lies of April lumber into May like zombies, mindless and moldy. Advocates of those special April days called “Equal Pay…
Vietnam Debacle 1975–Imagine a Different Ending
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS – It’s been forty years since the wars in Indochina ended and the curtain dropped ushering in a new period of darkness for the people…
Food Shortages Still Stalk North Korea
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS -There’s an urgent food crisis in communist North Korea, where shortages affect up to 70 percent of the population. According to an alarming new UN…
There Is No “I” In IEP
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Another year, another IEP meeting. Another wasted 45 minutes trying to salvage a student’s public school education by updating his ironically-named “Individualized Education Program” (IEP)
Mideast Christians, Cultures Under Attack
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS – Throughout the chaos, calamity and conflict which has befallen the Middle East, there are few groups which have come under such intense attack as…
Nuclear “Deal” With Iran Says It All
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS– The Obama Administration and the tireless Secretary of State John Kerry endlessly strive to reach a nuclear “deal” with Iran.
Expand the Credit Recovery Scam!
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer Another week, another news story about a public school failing its mission: “High school accused of massive grade-fixing scheme” screamed the headline in the New York Post.
Afghan Peace Process Far From Assured
by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS – Afghanistan’s long and tortuous road to peace and reconciliation still seems a near mirage as an entrenched terrorist insurgency seems to rebuff political and…
Minority Rule
by Ken Gorrell, Weirs Times Contributing Writer While serving as a Navy officer in Hawaii, a friend told me that I’d be happier and healthier if I lived the “aloha spirit” for which the islands…
Barbarians Inside the Gates
IS Destruction Sweeps Ancient Sites by John J. Metzler Weirs Times Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS–The barbarians are inside the gates of Nimrud, the ancient Assyrian city in northern Iraq now being plundered, pillaged, and bulldozed…