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Among those I’ve interviewed over the years, there’s one in particular that continues to resonate with me. His name was, or I surely hope so still is, Dan Doughtery. And I interviewed him in 2018 when the Fairfield, California, retired insurance man was 93 years old.

The law includes a lot of requirements — usually legally called “duties” — regarding all kinds of things. Often, those duties are requirements that the law makes some people provide to or for the benefit of other people.

Political power is in the hands of the people. Our democracy responds to the cries of the people. And the people would like to prevent America from having five and a half more years of octogenarian governance, whether it’s President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump again.

“Will a network that has decided to recklessly traffic in and promote lies, junk science and unfounded conspiracy theories, and purposefully omit and distort the truth to keep its viewers rabidly tuned in, feel at all chastened by what can only be described as an unequivocal and unprecedented smackdown?”

The U.S. Congress has for months been working on passing a new bill to ban assault weapons. A group of Democrats, now supported by nearly enough RINO Republicans to get the bill passed, claim that the bill is the answer to the problem of mass shootings in this country.

Ever since word got out that I’ll be retiring from teaching at the end of this semester, people have been asking me what I’ll be doing next?

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, children ages 12 to 18 reported they had been afraid of attack or harm at school. This is due to the increase of violent episodes occurring during the school year.

Low, leaden clouds overhead that Friday morning 158 years ago this month set a somber tone. A locomotive chugged out of Washington railroad depot at precisely 8 a.m. It took two hours to reach Baltimore, just 40 miles away. The little train wasn’t allowed to travel faster than 20 mph.

I just donated to the March of Dimes, the iconic initiative aimed at promoting the health of children and pregnant, women at a time many women are fighting for the right not to be pregnant.

Our son called the other day and said, “Do you remember what you always used to tell me when I was growing up?”