Opinion

I have had the misfortune of having a family member at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital to treat a serious issue. While waiting for an elevator I noticed a large plaque

Bruce Tracy’s “Another Trip to Death Row” (letters, May 19) was clearly written with compassion. As a Roman Catholic, I believe no person is beyond God’s mercy, and that redemption

I think it somewhat presumptuous of Patrick Daems to write the sort of letter that he did (April 7). Taking the opening statement, “You start from the premise that everyone

I am a resident of the Bridgeport community in Santa Clarita. Like many others, I was drawn here by the beauty of the lake, the wildlife and the sense of

Mr. Arthur Saginian (April 22, letters) rightly notes that the fall of the Roman Empire was far too complex to blame on immigration alone. But in making that argument, he

In response to Gary Horton’s pontification of the military industrial complex (May 20), let us understand that President Dwight Eisenhower had just witnessed 400,000 Americans and millions of world citizens

This is a response to a column from Mr. Jonathan Kraut (May 19). I thought I was reading a letter from our enemy. Yes, there certainly is a cost of

Regarding Lois Eisenberg’s letter (April 2), fact-checking President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, you’re barking up the wrong tree. You might even be in the wrong forest.  SOTU’s

Eisenhower warned us this would happen.  A victorious post-World War II America, armed with the most powerful military in human history, would eventually normalize militarism into everyday life. War would

I’m old so I love old sayings and one of my favorites is one attributed to Mark Twain that says, “There are Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics.” His point was

This weekend, I made my third trip in the last 12 months to Death Row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Eleven men sentenced to die have been working

Jack Crawford’s letter, “Blessed Are the Peacemakers,” in the May 13 edition, makes several assumptions while presenting them as settled moral truth. As a Roman Catholic, I also take seriously

I often disagree with many of your opinion columnists, sometimes to the point of writing and sharing my disagreement. Sometimes I think you publish your columnists for their diverse viewpoints,

Until recently, the Democrat frontrunner in the California governor’s race was a guy who spent years insisting that Donald Trump was a Russian spy, while he himself was canoodling an