One of the obstacles that arise when discussing issues with those on the Left is their abandonment of rational thought for feelings.
Americans have grieved over the senseless murders of 31 people recently gunned down in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart and a Dayton, Ohio, nightclub.
One of the obstacles that arise when discussing issues with those on the Left is their abandonment of rational thought for feelings.
Back in the not-so-distance past, when racism in the Republican Party was covert and cloaked in code words and dog whistles, I’d have conversations with proud party members who would attempt to convince me that I was seeing things that weren’t there.
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The pompous guy next to me at the banquet the other night asked in a “gotcha” kind of way, “What’s the most important thing you’ve ever learned?”
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The real winner of the recent Democratic “Road to the White House” debate was President Donald Trump.
So maybe it’s because we’re in the dog days of summer, but for the last month or so, instead of being controversial, obnoxious and gloriously vulgar, I’ve tried to be as informative and as fair as possible.
We all want to do nice things for our loved ones. We go on family trips and celebrate life’s wins together.
You have to hand it to Windy. When Alphonse “Windy” Wilson chooses to speak, it is a bombastic sampling of creativity.
It was August 1920. In world news, Ethelda Bleibtrey became the first woman to medal at the Olympics setting the women’s 100-meter freestyle world record in swimming.
Medical insurance and healthcare continues to be a main topic of American conversations.
CONTINUED FROM last week.
Can you believe Christmas is right around the corner? It seems like we were just celebrating the Fourth of July, and now it’s time to prepare for another Christmas season.
I swear summer seems to get shorter and shorter and, before you know it, school’s back in session. (This isn’t real swearing, I promise.)
When I mention I have a newspaper column, people want to know what I write about.
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The last couple weeks, I’ve been writing about income equality. For me it’s a stark problem our country has. You can see the numbers. You can read the statistics. It’s very real to most Americans, young or old, black or white, male or female.
The days are dwindling down to decision time. Which sport should we watch as autumn approaches?
It was Doc who first noticed Dud’s strange behavior.
Dear Dave,
“Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe and President Donald Trump have reconsidered and withdrawn the idea that Ratcliffe should be the next national director of U.S. intelligence. That’s a shame. Given Ratcliffe’s Texas-sized descriptions of his abilities and experience, he could have easily end…
Overworked, overscheduled, overconnected — that’s the world we live in today. It’s overwhelming, to say the least!
“Be on the alert! That nerdy looking guy at your door asking if he can cut your lawn just might be former Microsoft guy Bill Gates trying to pick up a few bucks to recover from the financial embarrassment of dropping from being the second richest person in the world all the way down to only …
While reading the late Kert Blackwood’s reprinted column last week, one idea has stuck in my mind — radical liberals wanting destruction for destruction’s sake.
I laugh at the commercials for a best-selling candy bar that shows what happens when we’re hungry.
In light of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said President Donald Trump could begin construction of his border wall using the $2.3 billion he took from the military after Congress exercised their power of the purse under the U.S. Constitution and refused to give it to him, a few hundred w…
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OK, so last week, we talked about the huge canyon of wage difference between the 1% and the other 99%. And the awesome thing we determined is it isn’t about politics!
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In 1915, Madie Ann Lee French Salmon was 27 years young.
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My best friend was telling me about his oldest daughter the other day.
Americans should be able to draw 100% of their Social Security benefits at age 65, but they can’t.
When you have a teenage relative, and the minimum age is 21 to go to a rock concert, and this relative has to go to the concert or die.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Art Smith of the Volunteers for Freedom Tea Party submitted this Dec. 2, 2011 column with the following message: “Though this article was initially written in 2011 with specific reference to Barack Obama, the tactics and goals of radical leftists remain the same today. If anyt…
Mary Ann Papp’s daughter Lisa was worried about her 75-year-old mother.
Since the publication of the novel 1984, George Orwell’s dystopian missive about a fictionalized country called Oceania which is ruled by a totalitarian style government that controls all aspects of life and routinely rewrites history and changes the meaning of words, from time to time eleme…
These past few weeks in Congress have been a whirlwind, thanks to our yearly appropriations process.
Most of us older citizens grew up with vivid recollections of the World’s Biggest Fish Fry, the Strawberry Festival down at good old Humboldt and even the Banana Festival over at the twin cities of Fulton and South Fulton.
Do most of you, who earn little to no more than you did 20 years ago, (especially when adjusted for inflation) not worry about our, not to mention your, future?
Social media is just like mom’s apple pie, it’s not good to eat a whole pie every day.
Dear Dave,
The Bahdziewicz clan trooped into the Mule Barn for lunch the other day, happily and noisily as only eight Americans totally in love with summer can do.
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One out of five times Americans visit a hospital emergency room, they are surprised several months later to receive a bill that could run into thousands of dollars.
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