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  • Chocolate bars are great

    Alex suddenly realized he was starving – according to his standards. Of course, that standard set low, as his stomach pretty much governed his life. Forty-five minutes without something going into his mouth seemed like forever to that growing teenager. 
  • Trump Admin efforts could sharply reduce DC crime
    D.C.’s violent crime rate still exceeds that of every state by at least 54% and rivals or surpasses many major cities.
  • Red or Blue: AI is coming for you
    Want to know if AI is coming for your job?  Pull up a county-by-county map of the 2024 election. You might find your answer in red and blue.
  • Smoke and mirrors – caveat emptor
    Regardless of any corporate spin, local service means local service, whether it is in private-sector business, law enforcement, health care, education or anything else. To spin it otherwise, is just the obscuring or embellishing of the truth of a disconnected situation with misleading or irrelevant information.
  • A sermon on Luke 12:49-53
    The fire of Jesus will purify you. It will burn away your sin, burn away your doubts, burn away your fears, burn away your hate, burn away your pride, and burn away anything that is not of God in your soul.
  • On the Moraine, Part XXIV
    One evening, John developed a terrible cold, and Mother became very worried about him and thought is was pleurisy. We had no car, no established doctor, or anything. These things developed into a pattern – they happened when Dad was in Troy working.
  • Senate Leadership Fund chair issues statement on Ohio Senate Race
    "Ohioans firmly rejected Sherrod after he oversaw Biden’s disastrous inflation crisis as banking chairman, and they’ll gladly do it again."
  • Sherrod Brown reportedly will run for Ohio U.S. Senate seat
    Former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is planning to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Husted next year for one of Ohio’s two seats in the Senate, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Tuesday.
  • World rewards Hamas for its atrocities
    On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas launched a brutal assault on Israel. As 5,000 rockets slammed into civilian targets, terrorists massacred at least 1,200 Israelis, wounded about 3,500, and took 251 hostages. They raped, eviscerated, mutilated, beheaded, tortured and incinerated their victims. At least 75 hostages have died, and about 20 remain in captivity.
  • All pancakes are not made alike
    You have probably been told a few times in your life to not let anyone take away your own peace.
  • Democracy promotion is dead: Good riddance
    One would have thought that the debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq would have humbled our nation’s democracy promoters, but they haven’t. One would have thought that the failed foreign policy of Jimmy Carter would have humbled those who wish to make “human rights” the centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy, but it didn’t.
  • Hamas’ terror has expanded
    Never has Gaza shown itself less capable of self-government; never has such a state’s justification been less valid; never has Israel had less confidence in such a state’s future or its own security. How does such validation of Hamas’ despicable means do anything but add incentive for repetition for more terror? 
  • Little Red
    Little Red is a special tractor. She is a 1945 McCormick-Deering 0-4 Orchard tractor, one of only 2,721 ever made.
  • On meeting strangers
    The practical benefits of meeting strangers extend far beyond emotional catharsis. Whether you've walked unfamiliar cities, boarded trains, sat in airports, stood in bomb shelters, or simply waited in line for coffee, stranger assistance has likely shaped your experience.
  • Just to be clear: I don’t like everything about President Trump
    I don’t like everything about President Trump. And I didn’t dislike everything about the other 13 presidents who have served in my lifetime. They all have their good and bad points.  
  • Whistleblower ties Clinton campaign to fake Russia hack
    A whistleblower report declassified last week suggests that Hillary Clinton’s campaign efforts to manufacture evidence tying Donald Trump to alleged Russian hacking in 2016 were deeper than previously known – as were Obama administration efforts to conceal them.
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