Editorial

It happened on your watch! If I could for a moment draw your attention to three names that have left their mark on history. See if you can tell yourself who these three are? If you can you have a great memory.  First is the name of Walter Short and then Husband Kimmel and last…

What are they going to do to make a change? I spent several hours last week watching the Democratic National convention. Speaker after speaker told how they were going to make changes to lower prices, taxes and more programs. But they did not spell out just how this was going to be accomplished. Basically the…

Ronald Reagan, the best! I know some people will not agree with me, but in my mind, Ronald Reagan was the best president that this country has ever had. He was, at least during my lifetime. He pushed for limited government, a free enterprise, a strong national defense, and traditional values. “Unlike many presidents, Regan…

Trump has endured yet again! Donald Trump has endured many things during his run for the White House including being shot last Saturday while campaigning in Pennsylvania. We should have figured out that some deranged individual would try to take out Trump with all the negative campaigning he has endured. A group of Republican Lawmakers…

Not close to a state record! I caught this 26-inch Northern on Lake Hayward July 4th while fishing with a couple of my grandchildren, Ross and Sara. It took my spoon on my first cast with the following two hundred casts providing nothing. So what is the state record for Northern Pike, turning to my…

What do you call your noon meal? I have been called to task for calling my noon meal Dinner. In my life it’s always been breakfast in the morning, dinner at noon and supper at six in the evening. I’ve been told that I am wrong as it should be first, breakfast, then lunch and…

“Human civilization will end” if birth rates continue to fall In a piece published by the Capitol Guardian back in April, Elon Musk, noted “that the obvious math involved with plummeting fertility rates in countries all over the world, and reacting to the latest birth rate numbers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), wherein…

Presidential Campaigns I have been around a long time and I have spent many hours over the years listening and watching the campaigns for the election of president of the United States. Most campaigns have issues and that is expected as for every issue there are two sides to every story. But the story of…

Not on my tax dollar! As I watched the coverage of all the protests on college campuses brought about over the attack on Israel last October by Hamas, I am shocked by the anti Jewish hate in this country. Horrified, would be a better word to use. One of the things that bothers me is…

Protests are our way of life! During my long life, I have watched the news everyday and time hardly goes by without there being some sort of protest. Most are just regional or local events and a lot of them come to some sort of end without death, destruction, looting or burning. But, then there…