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By TERESA EUBANK
Guest Columnist

I am writing this to the attention of anyone who listens, who reads. I just saw a beautiful slideshow of the changing trees throughout our United States; in the background softly played the glorious song “God Bless America.”

“Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountains majesties, above the fruited plain. “America, America God shed his Grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.”

TIM KLOEPPEL
Guest Columinist

On May 20, Vice President Joe Biden attended the Democratic National Convention’s annual banquet in honor of Jewish History Month in Washington, D.C.

Lee Hamilton
Center on Congress

Let’s start with the obvious: A democracy needs intelligence agencies. It needs to know what’s happening in the world – and understand the plans of allies and enemies – to keep the nation prepared and secure.

If intelligence work is going to be effective, much of it has to be done in secret.

Mike Pence
Indiana Governor

Indiana’s students and schools have made great progress in recent years. According to the latest scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Indiana is improving at the second fastest rate of any state in the country. We owe this progress to the hard work of our students, teachers and the parents and school reformers everywhere who have insisted that we hold our-selves to high standards.