Columns

I left home without my phone the other day. I considered turning back but decided against it.

With each viewing of the national evening news, we’re all constantly confronted with the fact that the world in which we live is so very dangerous. Sadly, it seems only days between stories are reported involving gun violence. Even areas where there is great jubilation are not immune, as was demonstrated in mid-February at the culmination of the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade and player speeches on a stage outside Union Station.

I don’t blame the public for not wanting to put the Republican Party back in power in Washington.

People have nicknames for their friends and family members when they do not wish to use formal legal names.

I’ve always wanted to be a better listener.

As excitement was building up for the solar eclipse in Ohio the past two weeks, I saw an electric sign that piqued my interest while commuting to work in Lima. The sign was placed on a corner in Huntsville, a village that I pass through with a small population of just over 400.

I have always believed that exercise and health food will kill you. This explains why I live in deathly fear of broccoli and don’t do anything more strenuous than getting up twice a night to go to the bathroom.

Since the onset of Joe Biden’s sham economy, the cost of living has risen nearly 18%. Yet more uplifting news is headed America’s way as cattle production has hit its lowest level in over 70 years.

Fishermen see a lot when they’re at sea. But the pair looking for flounder off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, had never encountered anything like this.

From its earliest days, American foreign policy has undergone modifications as presidential administrations change. In overall goals, however, there are constants: protection of American land and people; protection of human rights and democracy; pursuit of policies that enhance domestic development and prosperity; maintaining a global balance of power; and for nearly a century supporting international peace through global cooperation. At times such goals are pursued from a nationalist vantage point, in that the pursuit of human rights and democracy abroad are sometimes overlooked or even rejected.