October 31, 2022

The GOP’s Future is with Hispanics

"We (Hispanics) stand for the values we were raised with -- God, family and hard work," exclaimed Congresswoman Mayra Flores (R) Texas on Fox News’ “Ingraham Angle.”  Two other Texas Republican Hispanic wome...

March 19, 2022

Biden fails to bring Ukrainian refugees to America

As a Ukrainian-American, I am alarmed and disgusted that more has not been done to help the 3 million Ukrainian refugees — a shocking number of refugees that will increase daily. Why aren't Ukrainian refugees being allowed to immigr...

November 12, 2020

A veteran's plea: 'Don't tread on our freedom!'

As I write with heavy heart, it is Veterans' Day 2020. I am flying my U.S. flag upside-down.  This is a signal of distress and extreme danger.   It should now be a symbol of resistance.  Resistance against a da...

June 7, 2020

Add a New Wall to Vietnam Veterans Memorial

I am blessed to have been raised by my late father, Chief Master Sergeant Robert Meinhold. Chief Meinhold had eight stripes down his sleeves and was a no-nonsense decorated World War II combat veteran.  He was listed during March of 1945 as...

May 25, 2020

Honor the 'Lost 74' sailors on Vietnam Memorial Wall

"It's the names," remarked Maya Lin, the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) in Washington, D.C., when asked why it had such a deep emotional impact on people.  "The names are the memorial.  No ...

August 27, 2019

The men of the Frank E. Evans

Frank Perkins, a U.S. Navy veteran, was wearing a dark blue navy hat with the name USS Frank E. Evans embossed on it.  I asked, "Are you a Navy veteran?"   "Yes," he said.  "Is that the name of ...

November 27, 2017

The myth of white privilege

When I hear the term "white privilege," it is as if someone just scraped his fingernails down a chalkboard. My white family comes from the Appalachian coal regions of Pennsylvania and for generations ne...

August 23, 2017

Baltimore can remove statues but can't change history

After having several Confederate statues recently removed late at night, Baltimore's Mayor Catherine Pugh stated, "I don't know why they were put there – I wasn't here at the time[.]"  As a former resid...

March 13, 2017

Free speech? Not at my college!

"You're not going to let us speak."  You would expect to hear those words in oppressive Communist regimes, or in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, where unacceptable speech can get you beheaded. No – th...

December 4, 2016

Veterans teach Hampshire College an Old Glory lesson

I try not to pay much attention to the antics happening on so-called progressive colleges, but last month president Jonathan Lash at liberal arts Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts stated the U.S. Flag is "a disruptive symbol....