OPINIONS/EDITORIALS

There's a hint of yellow in some of the first daffodils peeking out after the ice and snow.
There are a number of flat-bed trucks hauling mulch to anxious gardeners somewhere.
And the weather prognosticators are saying it's highly unlikely another Arctic blast is going to frost our socks this year.
All that can mean only one thing -- and while officially spring is a month away -- maybe the worst of winter is over and before long Mother Nature will begin reawakening.

There are two things that happened at last week's end that left me ill at ease.
A woman, apparently minding her own business, was leaving the grocery store and walking to her car when a Wake Forest man confronted her.
According to authorities and court documents, Anthony Howard Hall brutally assaulted the woman, kicking an punching her -- continuing to do so as she lay unconscious on the ground.
Full disclosure: It's the same grocery store I've gone to, at least twice a week, since I moved to Youngsville in 2018.

Dear editor: I must once again write in order to dispel misleading letters to the editor utilizing Progressive propaganda. Progressive propaganda relies on the construction of selectively chosen "facts" lacking context, thereby detaching it from reality. It seeks to train its audience to act first and reflect later. It asks the audience to replace true discernment with urgency, emotion, or moral pressure. When one allows emotions to overshadow reason, facts, consistency and rational thought become irrelevant.

Dear editor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer was only 39 years old when he was hanged by the Nazis at Flossenburg concentration camp, just two weeks before the U.S. Army flung open the gates.
Bonhoeffer, a theologian and ethicist, was critical of his fellow Christians in Germany for embracing Hitler and Nazism.
While in prison, he began developing his theory of stupidity, in an effort to explain how Nazism could take hold in a country famous for its literature, philosophy, and rationalism.