Opinion Archive

The Pensacola Ice Flyers have a home game both Friday and Saturday nights this week. Friday is Military Appreciation Night where Active Duty and retired military receive 25 percent off. Saturday is Mardi Gras Night and will include a parade and bead toss. If you are an All-Access Navarre Press subscriber, we have tickets for you. You can also upgrade your subscription and receive tickets for this weekend.

    I was making a quick Whataburger run down to Holley be the Sea. Sitting in the drive-thru, I turned off my truck while the car ahead waited for a large order. As they finished I turned the key and got silence – dead truck blocking the line for four or five hungry carloads of people.

It’s 1 a.m., I can’t sleep. The recent women’s marches worldwide reminded this octogenarian of my participation in three major marches/rallies years ago.

This is your last paper of January 2017 – can you believe it?  I can’t. This month went by very fast. Before we know it, there will be graduations and summer will be upon us. Actually, if feels like summer stayed and I’m not complaining. I will not live north of I-10. I was born in south Florida and this is as north as I will live. Visits up north are fine. My fingers even go numb and turn colors when it is less than 40 degrees outside. Now you know my weakness.

“Homeless in Paradise” ran in big letters on the front page a week ago as the Navarre Press took a deeper look at the suffering of those in our own county, and following the publication, we had one concerned citizen come into our office to look for deeper answers.

The 2017 Health & Business Expo will be this Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Navarre Conference Center.   There will be free health screenings, giveaways, samples, local business booths, and much more.  The map and listing of the event is in the Mind, Body & Spirit insert in this issue.

Did you know that most facts about America’s early presidents aren’t in history books? Political correctness has taken its toll on some of our greatest heroes and portrayed them as evil men. New York Times bestselling author Larry Schweikart sets the record straight in his new book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents Part I. As America prepares to inaugurate its 45th president, here are five interesting facts about America’s past inaugurations that aren’t easily found in academia.

For years many have advocated for America to get out of the U.N. One good reason is America’s been footing most of the bill.

With Barack Obama’s historical 2008 presidential election he immediately went on an apology tour for America. His tour apologized for America as a whole regarding the atrocities committed as a nation. What Barack failed to mention during his tour was the leadership of America at the time of all these atrocities. Historically that leadership came from members of the Democrat Party. Andrew Jackson’s “Trail of Tears,” our Civil War with the succession of the Democrat controlled Southern States over the slavery issue, the left’s issue of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, the 1960s Civil Rights movement again in the Democrat controlled Southern States, the assassination in Democrat controlled Memphis, Tennessee, of Martin Luther King over protesting the City’s Unionized Sanitation Department’s treatment of blacks, it is all there in history.

Small businesses truly are this nation’s backbone. They account for 94 percent of all the country’s businesses and are owned by a diverse array of Americans from all backgrounds. The ability to build a small business is the cornerstone of the American dream.