By Dr. Glenn Mollette Silence may or may not be golden. You may be hungry for a little bit of silence or terrified of the quiet. Silence can be deafening, but it all depends on the circumstances. Often the noise of the world and all that is going on can
October 3, 2026Dear editor; Voters of the City of Aurora, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties, Illinois: Please vote “Yes” on the Aurora Mayoral Recall Referendum Tuesday, Nov. 3. Aurora Voters will get to exercise an inalienable right that is a part of our heritage as Americans, to equip ourselves
Musings: •The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 22). He has placed his signature on the $100 bill “in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States of America”; Pardoned six persons who tampered with air pollution equipment in their automobiles in violation of the Clean Air Act; Brought
By John & Nisha Whitehead The spectacle of public executions. Deadly military strikes on foreign countries. Innocent civilian lives lost to war. Aggressive ICE raids. Government officials accused of using their powers to intimidate political opponents. Public office increasingly entangled with private financial interests. Government leaders who glorify violence, spew
By Dr. Glenn Mollette What keeps you living? Do you enjoy life? Are you happy for the opportunity to be in the world, breathe the air, see the beauty of God’s creation? Do you enjoy family, friends and daily life? What is your reason for living? None of us chose
Did you ever want to be famous? I mean the instantly recognizable Elvis Presley or Howdy Doody type of fame where people keep you in their memory ad infinitum (“He’s not really dead” and “He’s not really a puppet”). I did at one time, but eventually figured it was better
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda All my life I’ve told people of the hell communism is. I’ve even written a book about it entitled “From Tyranny to Liberty.” I’ve exchanged books with Cubans and Eastern Europeans who have experienced what I’ve experienced. We all tell similar stories. There is a common
By John & Nisha Whitehead The era of small government is over. Anyone who tells you differently is selling you a lie. Case in point: Donald Trump promised to shrink the federal government. But what if Trump’s pledge to cut the federal work force wasn’t really about eliminating government bureaucracy
By Dr. Glenn Mollette A few years back my wife’s parents passed and the time came to sell their house. The house was nice and had nice furniture. When the house sold a lot of their belongings ended up on the street for anyone to carry off. Even though there
September 20, 2026Dear editor; An interesting meeting was held September 14 at Santori Library in Aurora. A write-up covering the meeting was in the September 17 Beacon-News about the meeting on data centers. It interested me to observe all the open-ended and uncertain, not to mention confusing, issues surrounding data
By John & Nisha Whitehead America, you got fooled. Again. For starters, the war on illegal immigration was never just about illegal immigration. If you fell for that, chances are you’re still falling for the government’s oldest trick: Manufacture a crisis, identify an enemy, frighten the public, declare an emergency,
September 24, 2026Dear editor; Please Vote “No” on the Aurora Mayoral Recall Referendum Aurora voters will decide on the November ballot whether to support a referendum to allow the recall of an incumbent mayor. A recall would not even require the mayor to have committed an illegal act, which State
September 27, 2026 Dear editor; It takes years of reciprocal trust and patience to forge meaningful relationships into friendships. It takes only minutes to destroy them. This is true, in an intricately more complicated way, with nation-states, where the consequences of either trusting or not trusting between the world’s people,
By Bela “Bill” Suhayda John Fitzgerald Kennedy suffered severe back pain his entire adult life, first due to a football injury at Harvard and then when his P.T. boat was rammed by a Japanese Destroyer during World War II. In excruciating pain, on a dark night, he swam 3.5 miles
By John & Nisha Whitehead “National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave badly. They have become the magic words that can make constitutional restraints disappear—especially when the courts defer to claims of national security. Call something a matter of national security and the normal rules start
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Fall has arrived. This is not earth shattering news, but very welcome news if you have been living in 95 degree plus heat. For those of us who have, we are welcoming cooler temperatures. Autumn can be several weeks of happy weather, but by the time
September 11, 2026Dear editor; I have a friend who is dying, but she’s a fighter. Not fighting against death, but fighting for her best life until the end. You wouldn’t know she is dying if she didn’t tell you. She is too busy living than to dwell on what is
September 16, 2026Dear editor; Attacking other contributors to this publication seems to be popular with the likes of Bill (B.S.) Suhayda and Leonard Wass, so I thought I would take the opportunity to do some attacking of my own. Both of these guys are clearly among the blind supporters of
Oh, me! Oh, my! What do I spy? Contributor to The Voice, Bela Suhayda, apparently still hasn’t read the definitions of “communism” and “socialism” yet. He still wallows in capitalist propaganda. There’s a saying in Illinois (courtesy of former president Barack Obama): “You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s
By John & Nisha Whitehead What’s the point in celebrating the Constitution one day a year if we permit the government to violate it the other 364? September 17 marked the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a document designed not merely to establish a government, but to
