Today's Cartoon
It was Monday at Walmart on Hinkleville Road when, in a random but fortuitous moment, an editorial board member talked baseball with a fellow shopper.
The opening words of "Our American Flag," a column written by Dr. James Burns as an "iconic tribute to our flag and country," are particularly poignant today -- Flag Day, the annual commemoration of "Old Glory" -- and worth a mention here.
While we, members of and believers in the Fourth Estate, appreciate the sentiment of the cartoon above, and agree it has merit, we can't run with the overblown idea that an evolving media landscape poses the absolute gravest danger to U.S. democracy.
Two national news stories, and one here at home, about drug abuse caught our attention within recent weeks.
By ELI CAPILOUTO
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