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 …
So as I understand it, we finally know who to blame for the mayhem at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley? Yes, when Donald Trump was speaking to a crowd of Trumpanzees the other day in New Hampshire, he repeated his lie about offering troops to prevent what happened when …
Let me start by making one thing very clear. I can understand the people who hate Democrats, who would prefer almost anyone to Joe Biden. I don’t agree with them, but I understand them. I personally think Biden has done a good job, although I wish he wasn’t running for re-election. I am not at …
It was 4:30 a.m. exactly 30 years ago today when a massive shaking awakened me. I literally had the feeling that a giant hand was cupping our house and shaking it. It took me only a few seconds to realize it was an earthquake. A pretty large one, in fact. Close too. As it turned …
It was 1977 in Vienna, Austria, when I discovered two joys of reading that have stayed with me till this day. One was an author who was just starting out and the other was one who had been around for a long time and was actually in the last part of his career. The one …
I think it was January 1985 when I first realized how really cold it could get. It was the first of three times in my life I experienced wind chill temperatures as low as 50 degrees below zero. I was living in the Midwest, going from suburban St. Louis to Columbia, Missouri, to cover a …
