Columns

I’ve just finished feeding the fish in the water garden and am heading to the back door of our home. The smell of food exiting the kitchen vent tells me my wife, Karen, is cooking dinner.

Early one evening in February 1946, Harry Truman summoned the White House’s chief usher to the second-floor Oval Study. He pointed out the window through the South Portico to the Washington Monument and Potomac River beyond.

America is in a recession, a recession caused by overspending from the Biden Administration and the highest inflation rates in 40 years.

Take it from a man with dishpan hands: One of the great mysteries of the universe doesn’t involve flying saucers, though they are frequently spotted with coffee stains and break into tiny pieces if they fly off the kitchen counter.

I don’t have a son playing high school football this year. I never have. I don’t even have a son. Nor do I have a nephew or even a neighbor playing in the games.

The pro-choice jubilation that overtook the state of Kansas is beginning to subside, as all victorious celebrations eventually do. What’s less clear is if the revelers fully grasp that they’re still running against howling headwinds.

Some recent incidents in the news have brought to the forefront the subject of selective enforcement by law enforcement agencies. Selective enforcement simply means deciding which laws to enforce in a given situation. Since there are just too many laws, and too many violations, it is not possible to enforce all laws all the time. So, selective enforcement decisions have to be made. The potential for problems lies in the reasoning behind the decisions.

The best news of the week for all Americans is that Liz Cheney lost.

When our twin grandbabies were chubby-cheeked toddlers and would spend the night on two little blue cots, they often requested a “back-a-rub” to help them fall asleep.

For generations, those who mourn the passing of others have tried in some public displays to honor the memory of the departed. The practice goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who constructed monuments similar to those seen in cemeteries today. The markers erected all fall under the umbrella of what has come to be known as funerary art.