Where it comes to the august duty of electing a president of the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said electors must do what they pledge to do.

Biden again firing blanks

In a day when statues and monuments are toppled with all the thought of batting away a mosquito, a former University of Chattanooga official says even the president of the United States with the most credentials among black and white America should be suspect.

It's true that on this Fourth of July America looks like the heroine tied to the railroad tracks with the train hurtling toward her in an old Western film.

With little public announcement, the words "Black Lives Matter" were painted on a block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, between Lindsay and Houston streets, on Friday and Saturday.

Every week the drumbeat by Democrats that America must have mail-in balloting for president in November grows louder.

Diverse? How would we know?

During an episode of the current television rebroadcast of the 2013-2014 C-SPAN series "First Ladies: Influence and Image" last week, the discussion about Julia Grant — wife of President Ulysses S. Grant — unwittingly touched on history's judge of an individual that is being played out today in the destruction of statues and monuments across the country.

Friday afternoon, with the blessing of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga officials, what was called "a demonstration of solidarity" was to have taken place on the school's Chamberlain Field.

The group of 10 teenagers was tightly crowded onto two concrete picnic table benches at East Brainerd's Heritage Park one night last week, laughing and talking like only carefree youth with no responsibilities and on summer break from school can.

Maybe you've never heard of tiny Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, but you should.

Former Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker, the ex-University of Georgia and National Football League running back, says he has a notion to wake up protesters across the country who want to defund police departments.

Many Americans might agree or go along with a law that says employers cannot fire an employee of an average business simply because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Ah, paperwork.

We wonder if certain activists who seek change today ever hold up a mirror to themselves to see what other people see.

Perhaps, the Hamilton County Board of Education has something else up its sleeve for Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts (CSLA).

A video posted on social media over the weekend showing athletes from two North Georgia high schools using a racial slur will be exploited for all its worth by elements of a culture today that would love to paint all small Southern towns as hotbeds of adult racists-in-training.

You could hardly have missed it recently when The New York Times reported former Republican President George W. Bush and his brother, former Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, said they would not be voting for Republican President Donald Trump this fall.

Perhaps it's years of experiencing presidential elections — age, some might say — that entice people to compare one election with another.

As many Americans sit at home, the world outside their forced COVID-19 safe space is changing rapidly and in astonishing ways.

If open records laws don't mean what they say, if they have no teeth, if they're routinely disregarded by public officials, they're not much good.

Way back in January, before the coronavirus was a global pandemic, before anyone ever heard the name George Floyd, we suggested the state should rethink its list designating days of special observances.

If people around the world are facing a crisis of confidence, it's no wonder.