While the Democratic presidential candidates are crisscrossing Nevada, with frequent stops in Las Vegas, I decided to “try my luck” (pun intended) stumping at a diner in downtown Delphos, Ohio. If I don’t carry Delphos, I’ll be surprised. [Delphos was … Continue reading →
Yesterday marked another yearly anniversary of House Bill 9066 that set up Japanese internment during World War II. Some 100,000 Japanese Americans were interred in barracks behind barbed wire fences. In retrospect, history has proved this wrong. But is it … Continue reading →
Trump went to the Daytona 500 as the official race starter yesterday. As president, I wouldn’t do that. In fact, I’d try to dissuade motor car racing altogether. Ryan Newman is in serious condition after this crash (NBC News photo … Continue reading →
Instead of going to Air Force One last weekend for a luxury trip to Mar-a-Lago, I went to Table One in hardscrabble Kenton, Ohio, on the way to see my kid’s basketball game. Table One is owned and run by … Continue reading →
I’m doing a story on these guys for our local paper. A couple years ago, I did another story on another semi-pro football team out of Findlay, Ohio, as well. What’s more, they let me play quarterback during practice for … Continue reading →
In my spiritual reading this morning, I came across the “Tower of Babel” story in the Old Testament. It seems God had told “man” to go to the ends of the earth, or at least to Des Moines, and “populate” … Continue reading →
Kobe is dead. The ‘world’ mourns… Last night at my Bible study, Moses comes back down the mountain and the Israelites have built a “golden calf,” a false “idol,” if you will. Notice the ‘golden’ trim in the uniform above. … Continue reading →
Okay, looking at this picture, it wouldn’t take an anatomy professor at Dartmouth to figure out that abortion is murder. Period. Yet our society has become so unbelievably evil at this point… There are all those on the “left” who, … Continue reading →
A just published report by Swiss scientists says that planting “1 trillion trees” worldwide could significantly impact climate change. And we could let Ada, Ohio, take the lead. I was covering a village council meeting there last night. It was … Continue reading →
While I went into downtown North Baltimore, Ohio, to stump early Saturday evening (see previous entry), virtually nothing was open. So I headed out to McDonald’s on the outskirts of town. While passing out a “Joe campaign card” to an … Continue reading →