When I was a little kid, I learned about a couple of unofficial holidays. I became aware. of Mothers Day and Fathers Day, and I asked my grandmother if there was a Children’s Day. “Every day is children’s day,” she told me. My grandmother has been gone for nearly 35 years. I think that particular …
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” It’s time to try something new in the Middle East. Arabs have been waging war on Israel since that country declared its independence in May 1948, and the recent terror attacks by Hamas prove that no real progress is being made toward a peaceful solution. …
Ten years ago, I had never heard of Taylor Swift. In fact it was another concert with a younger female singer when I first became aware of her music. I went with my wife and son to see Jackie Evancho perform in Atlanta. She was 13 or 14 at the time, one of the young …
“It’s sad. It makes you want to cry.”“No, it’s sad. It make you want to laugh.”— BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY (1973) If there’s one bad thing about being old, and of course there are more than one, it’s that you reach a point in your life where people your own age or younger than you …
$83.3 million? Sounds like a lot, huh? Imagine being told to pay $83.3 million for sexually assaulting a woman you never even met. And even if you had met her, it’s obvious she wasn’t your type. It isn’t easy being orange. If I wanted to make a particular point, I suppose I could say that …
There is an old saying that is going to have a big effect on this year’s campaign. “Be careful what you wish for.” Conservatives spent half a century bemoaning the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision that made abortion legal for millions of American women. Their dream finally came true in 2022 when the Court, …
What happens when you don’t have a home town? I have written before about the fact that I have done something very few people I know have done. I have lived for more than 10 years in each of four different states — Ohio, Virginia, California and Georgia. In the first of the four, I …
“For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, …
Some days are diamonds. I used this line to start a newspaper column 37 years ago when I was sports editor and columnist for the Greeley Tribune in Colorado. I had gone bowling, something I enjoyed quite a bit back then. I was about as average a bowler as a guy could be. I remember …
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Dukakis in the tank. Kerry dressed in the white costume that made him look like a sperm. DeSantis in the white go-go boots. Will they ever learn? Presidential candidates nearly always have speechwriters. They nearly always have press secretaries, advance men and policy people. But far too many of them seem to lack one person …
