Columns

By Brenda Fleischmann

Special to Roane County News

My husband and I recently had the privilege of participating in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in Chattanooga.

I listened as my husband told the audience about how his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when he was 9 and how she died from the disease when he was 14.

As a child, my husband didn’t understand what breast cancer was. Unfortunately, he did understand what it was like to lose his mother.

President Obama’s administration has left us vulnerable to the enemies of America.

The Muslim Brotherhood has established a united, anti-American global Islamic front, expanding its outposts and influencing America.

There is an unholy alliance between the leftists and the Islamists. The Obama administration coddled, funded and praised Islamic regimes abroad.

By Gene Policinski

Some people like Donald Trump, and say nice things about him.

Some people don’t like Donald Trump, and some say things about Donald Trump that are unkind, hurtful and downright insulting. Some people say those things on social media.

And sometimes people who like Donald Trump respond to those comments.

Recently, we have been reading the letters of that First Century Roman correspondent, Pliny the Younger, with considerable pleasure. Pliny was nephew of Pliny the Elder, a statesman of great note who died in the eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculanium.

His father’s family were the Caecilii and his mother the Plinii. By the Elder Pliny’s will, the Younger was adopted and was henceforth known as Gaius Plinius, hence anglicized into Pliny.