It is time we memorialize the five Chattanoogans — five African American women — shot in an act of domestic terrorism in 1980.

The Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center opened its doors last week in a series of events designed to draw visitors into scenes that spanned the history of the Medal of Honor, from the first awards to Andrews' Raiders to the youngest recipient, the War on Terror's Kyle Carpenter.

Despite the threat posed to our nation and the rest of the world, President Trump made no mention of climate change in this year's State of the Union address. We need a state of the climate for 2020.

Remember when the juiciest follow-the-money stories about President Donald Trump were his six bankruptcies? Gosh, that seems like a 100 years ago. Now we run out of fingers counting the serial money scandals of our 45th president. Here's a laundry list to help put this wheeling, self-dealing presidency into perspective:

We've seen the ruinous effect of President Donald Trump's placement of a de facto Roy Cohn — William Barr — at the top of the Department of Justice. And we're about to see that same kind of ruin with Trump's appointment of propagandist Richard Grenell as acting director of national intelligence.

Now that was a debate.

The Charles H. Coolidge Medal of Honor Heritage Center, in its various non de plumes, has been wandering in the wilderness for as long as the country's longest war.

In Las Vegas, not surprisingly, it was all about the sizzle.

Although one sexual abuse case is one too many, priests in the Catholic Church who have perpetrated such actions do not mean the church as a whole does not and has not done enormous good through the years

Back in the 1800s, the expression "pull oneself up by the bootstraps" meant the opposite of what it does now. Then it was used mockingly to describe an impossible act.

Bernie Sanders has said that he will support the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, no matter who he or she is.

Not for the first time, President Trump has perverted the presidential pardon power to benefit undeserving recipients with whom he shares a personal or political affinity.

The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large.

He may have hoped his billions would speak louder than his baggage, but Michael Bloomberg has experienced a cavalcade of bad press over the past two weeks that should make him a painfully hideous choice for any voters, but Democrats in particular.

In the realm of health care, proposals for change always provoke instant resistance.