Contrary to the claims of critics, the court did not take away anyone’s right to vote. Nor did it repeal the Voting Rights Act. What it did was recognize that the Constitution places limits on how far government may go in using race as a political tool – even for ostensibly benevolent purposes.

On the evening of His Resurrection, Jesus appeared to His Apostles who were scared out of their wits. He came to show them He truly is alive. He came to offer them forgiveness. When Jesus said, "Peace be with you," He was also implying, "I forgive you for deserting Me. I forgive you for when I needed you the most you abandoned Me." 

Let’s start with Kristof’s marquee source: the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. He calls it “a Geneva-based advocacy group often critical of Israel,” which is like calling the DNC “a Washington-based political group often critical of Republicans.” Euro-Med exists to oppose Israel. Many of its leaders, including its founder and chairman, are linked to Hamas. The group has a track record of promoting unverified or false anti-Israel claims, including the exact “dogs trained to rape prisoners” story Kristof repeated.

Hollywood offshores more than 60% of its production annually now. As a result, America has lost a major economic engine along with significant global cultural influence. Hollywood didn’t slowly decline. It hollowed out – as did the industry’s appetite to project pro-American idealism globally.

Leave it to Gary Lewis to become perhaps the first person in my nearly five consecutive decades in printing to have mishegoss published in one of my printed materials – either from Rotary Forms Press, Inc. or any one of the half-dozen newspapers where I found almost gainful employment.

Energy price shocks raise overall prices while weakening the real economy. Industrial production falls. Unemployment rises. Real gross domestic product falls relative to where it would have been without the shock.

There has to come a time when you sit up, look around you, wipe off your face, then sigh and begin your life again. I could cite an endless list of things that can ruin your days…or even your life for years. 

They are so pretty, cascading out from the edge of the woods and flowing into the fields. Honeybees love them and gladly gather their yellow pollen. And so it seems that they do have some redeeming values. I, however, consider them my archenemy. 

It starts with a letter in the mail. A dairy farmer opens it to find new requirements from their milk processing plant. Herd data, energy usage, emissions figures. The letter calls it voluntary but if you don't comply, the plant can't take your milk. And if the plant can't take your milk, you're out of business.

Well, we may have been a few minutes north of Ivy Hill Drive as the chicken flies, but when you are a short-legged beagle like I am, that is not the case.

Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve been chatting about the old Mosby Medicine Company of Cincinnati, mainly because ever since I was a youngster, I had an old medicine bottle from the company but never knew the history behind it – until many, many years later.

There was no call to vocation. No sense of citizenship. No demand for judgment, courage or responsibility. No acknowledgment that the students sitting in front of her are about to enter a world that will test them in specific and serious ways. Instead, the graduates become the backdrop for an institutional message about itself.

Private schools primarily serving low-income families qualify for the extra support, busting the myth that the tax credits help the “white and wealthy,” according to the foundation. Of the annual 101,751 scholarship recipients, 4 in 10 identify as non-white, which is on par with public school enrollment.

The statewide signature petition drive does not change anything in Ohio. If successful, it simply gives Ohio voters a voice if they prefer a different direction. It reminds me of the many times I covered county commission meetings in Highland and other counties. Almost without fail, when a county agency such as Children Services or another office approached commissioners for their "blessing" to place a levy or levy renewal on the ballot, commissioners acquiesced.

In my brief time in the Marines, they taught one lesson above all others: never let the enemy set the tempo. Trump has not. From the opening strikes on Feb. 28 straight through to today's blockade, Washington has held the initiative. That is not an accident.