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Of course, we all know that the lessons we’re taught don’t always come from those who stand before us in our classrooms. Among the many who have taught us something useful — be they our friends or co-workers or others we briefly pass on our life’s journey — perhaps today is the day when we should pay homage to our mothers, who, indeed were our very best teachers.

Earlier this month, the Ohio Supreme Court decided that a person who openly and nonchalantly stole a leaf blower from a garage was not guilty of the crime of burglary, because the thief did not enter the garage by “force, stealth, or deception,” as required in the Ohio Revised Code.

Just when you begin to think that the Biden administration couldn’t possibly do any more damage to the mores and values of our society, they manage to come up with just one more thing that is counterproductive to everything that most of us have been taught — the idea that working, paying one’s bills and keeping a good credit rating are positive things.

AOC and her Green New Deal buddies in the Biden government are not just winning their crusade against fossil fuels.

When you want to persuade people that the thing you are doing is good, moral and just, you throw in the word “fairness.”

It’s hard to imagine now, but Adolf Hitler — the world’s most reviled dictator, responsible for the genocide of six million Jews — had plenty of American friends.

Milton didn’t like farming. It was just that simple. Farming is a harsh life filled with hard work from sunrise to sundown. It was doubly hard in the 19th century, before today’s modern conveniences.

A new progressive era is dawning in America, and almost nothing Republicans can do will hold back the tide — unless Republicans destroy democracy altogether (more on this in a moment).

We often home-school three of our grands on Tuesdays while their mother works. We’re not sure whether we are the ones schooling, or the ones getting schooled.

It appears we have another teenager in our home.