Right and left. Have you ever been stuck with your mouth open upon hearing a longtime next-door neighbor proclaim that the only way to reduce crime...
As I relax behind the wheel of my outdated mobile, I realize I am the 15th car at this East Main traffic light. There appear to...
By the 18th century, Valentine’s Day was as much as we know it today. By the way, it’s today, so it’s not too late to not...
This year I want to… Write something worth reading Read something worth sharing Say something worth repeating Give something worth getting Choose something worth keeping Sacrifice...
How do college students mentally “wrestle with a wide range of ideas” when they prevent those ideas from being expressed? This is not a rhetorical...
Is impeachment a political process, or is it a legal proceeding? This is not solely an academic question. At this moment in our Nation’s history,...
I know propaganda. As a mother grizzly knows her cubs, I know propaganda. And what I have in recent days witnessed is propaganda of the...
My ears perk up a bit when I hear folks gnawing on the topic of education. And the buzz I’ve heard in recent days has been...
This applies to both parties, both houses of Congress and to all elected officials: “No!” You are not self-employed! I, the American voter, am your boss...
Some time ago I met a cowboy. Not a Hollywood cowboy. Not a guitar-strumming Nashville cowboy. This cowboy sat upon a horse so big, I had...
To my Grandson, to help clarify a few points. The concepts here are relatively simple, but they are frequently ignored. Even when not ignored, the lines...
Imagine you are the owner of ABC Widget Company and that you have just discovered some of your employees have regularly been leaving company premises during...
A Grandfather to a Grandson: Evaluate Candidates based upon technical expertise or ethics? A grandfather’s ears are like radar. They detect movement and direction. At times...
On Balance Those founding fathers who crafted our Constitution were brilliant! But if they came up short on anything, it was in anticipating man’s capacity for...
I’ve been seeking to learn why it is God, our Creator, allows so much evil. It is a perplexing question. I suppose I should start with...
On global warming Some of us don’t seem to care much about facts these days. Especially abhorrent are facts which disagree with pronouncements made by activists...
What is the best way to be certain we will repeat the errors of the past? Before we attempt to answer this, let’s visit a coach...
About those 56 men… If today we were to find fifty-six men who would publicly proclaim such statements as these, the likelihood is that each and...
God gave us intellect. This attribute, intellect, is one of the ways in which we are created in the image of God. Intellect is a tool....
If a baker’s dozen, frothing at the mouth, hungry as a pack of wolves, first-string Democrat attorneys, could not dig up indictable crimes to bag President...
The psalmist wrote: The heavens declare the glory of God. Today he might add: All nature declares the glory of God. Why? Well, at the time...
An Meine Enkelinnen (To My granddaughters) I am compelled by the tenor of our times. I am compelled by the fact that you are flesh of...
I’ve just read a letter from Senator Tim Kaine to a constituent. The topic? S. 3111 ‘‘Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.’’ I would be remiss if...
A Lake Frederick resident calls Democrats to task! Cal Thomas wrote (March 13), “The Democrat party has shown a lack of will to tell the truth.…”...
Want to attempt something difficult? Try talking with your grandkids about facts and politics. Problem is, facts are not the most popular of ingredients in today’s...
If Frank Tilton’s writings are anything, they are eclectic. Much like his life experiences. Much like his education. Much like the books he reads, the music...
As politics in America deteriorates to what has been described by some historians as its most tribal and divisive level since the 1850’s, the very idea...
Since we last checked in with the weekly “Vigil for Democracy” protests of the Trump agenda and methodology, a counter-demonstration of pro-Trump Catholics have joined Ralph...
On Wednesday, March 15, Len Sherp will hold his second “Vigil for Democracy” near the Town Gazebo at the primary East Main-Chester Street intersection of Front...
Sometimes words remain appropriate, not only for the era in which they are spoken, but for multiple eras, and perhaps for the length of humanity’s struggle...