Opinion

‘Right to Life’ – or Condemned to Death?
You have no idea of the detrimental results of the recent overturn of Roe vs Wade. There will be plenty ...
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The White House Plumbers (Watergate-50 Years Later)
Some of us are ancient enough to remember the Watergate burglary that brought down the President of the United States ...
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Congress Needs New Leadership – Vote June 21
Congress has a 14 percent approval rating. Nearly everyone agrees that Congress needs new leadership, yet Americans keep reelecting incumbents ...
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Warren County Sheriff’s Office Community Advisory Council (CAC) is looking for new members and new leaders
The WCSO CAC was established in July 2020, as the Covid-19 virus was raging and everyone was trying to figure ...
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The Fringe
Right and left. Have you ever been stuck with your mouth open upon hearing a longtime next-door neighbor proclaim that ...
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The sun is over the yardarm
As I relax behind the wheel of my outdated mobile, I realize I am the 15th car at this East ...
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PSYWAR in the valley – Jackson’s Valley campaign recalled tonight at Warren Rifles Museum
(Editor’s note: Author John Paul Morgan will be the featured speaker at tonight’s May 23rd ceremonies sponsored by the Warren ...
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Growing social division and its political symptoms
Our country is more deeply divided than it has ever been. Just within the past weeks, we have seen the ...
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Price of Progress
Every year in May a colleague and I take about a dozen students on some type of weeklong outdoor experience ...
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The Forgotten Variable in Pending Overturn of Roe v Wade – Unwanted Children
I sat in church Sunday and heard my pastor say abortion is immoral and we should be okay with Roe ...
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Do the homework – and pray for all oppressed peoples
Shireen Abu Aqla, a Palestinian Christian, reporter, and the mentor and close friend of a dear Palestinian Christian, reporter, and ...
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All in the training
As an observer of the video on Mr. Ennis’s arrest, I have to agree with Mr. Candenquist’s letter to the ...
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Shameful behavior exhibited in Mr. Ennis’s arrest clearly undermines the trust and respect that our police agencies deserve
Having read the Police Report by Corporal Lowery, as reported in the Royal Examiner, filed on the occasion of the ...
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Brother Against Brother, Again
Right and left. How did we come to this? We’re starting to hate each other and we think we know ...
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Religious Intolerance 2022
Three years ago, I wrote an article about religious intolerance. My premise was that America had actually never been that ...
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Another Earth Day
Anthropocene is a relatively new term coined by scientists to indicate our current geologic era in which humans have imposed ...
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To Censor or not to Censor, that is a Difficult Question
One of the hot news stories is the bill in Florida banning discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in ...
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Budapest Memorandum
It seems as if over the past several weeks the main questions my students have is about the Ukraine. This ...
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Commentary: The Russians are coming!
Why does Russia exact fear in our cumulative thinking? Why are Russians always the bad guys? Think about how Russia ...
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Didactically Trivial (Jeopardy) by Design
Have you ever engaged in mindless web surfing in hopes of gaining nuggets of wisdom that may prove enlightening and ...
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Soft Power – Biden’s international tactics at odds with much of GOP
The Republican cult has shown its true colors, first by their support for Putin and other autocrats such as Orban ...
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USA and Ukraine – What to do?
In our classes on conflict resolution, we refer to the extremes of conflict. We call this “The Conflict Continuum.” We ...
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Daylight Saving Time: Spring forward! Reset your clock, check your faith
Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday, March 13th, 2022 at 2 am. In those wee hours of the morning, when you ...
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We will feel some pain
Your Ukrainian brothers and sisters in democracy are fighting, bleeding, and dying to preserve the democracy that protects freedom in ...
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The Illusion of Truth
Truth is only your brain’s take on reality. Have you ever heard the remark, “life is an illusion or perception ...
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Forty days with Jesus
The Lenten tradition of the Church takes its inspiration from Jesus’ forty days of solitude, prayer and fasting in the ...
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Putin’s actions remind us democracy is better
Perhaps there is one positive outcome that could arise from the brutally evil acts of a sociopathic dictator named Putin ...
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Warren County Democratic Committee Chair eager to tackle local community issues
As the new chair of the Warren County Democratic Committee, I am eager to tackle the many local issues testing ...
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Russian invasion of Ukraine
As I watched the news last night of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it scared me as it probably has scared ...
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