Opinion

OPINION: THE IDLE AMERICAN – Word Muddling: Part Two

Last week’s piece about misstatements on the radio–as well as other communication boondoggles–resulted in readers’ contributions of foul-ups they’ve ...

Opinion

OPINION: The filibuster is busted. Time to scrap it.

Letting small minorities of senators block things most Americans support delivers obstruction, not bipartisanship. If you’re under the ...

Opinion

OPINION: My Five Cents- New laws now in effect

Monday, January 31 is the last day to register to vote in the March primary elections. To register, ...

Opinion

OPINION: Let’s not allow the great powers to destroy the world

The vast destruction wrought by the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945 should have been enough to ...

Opinion

OPINION: Supreme Court renders mixed decisions on the vaccine mandates

The U. S. Supreme Court has rejected President Joe Biden’s OSHA vaccination overreach for private sector employees, but ...

Opinion

OPINION: Story Over a Cup – The Coffee War of 2008

Today I want to talk about male pride and coffee. Two items, which when combined, can make for ...

Columnists

OPINION: Positive Highlights – Give love a chance to win

There is always the lifelong question of, what is love? People, of course, young and old have their ...

Opinion

OPINION: THE IDLE AMERICAN – They let us eat cake

Blackie Sherrod–arguably the best sportswriter this side of the ancient Olympic Games begun in Greece seven centuries before ...

Opinion

OPNION: THE IDLE AMERICAN – Old-time radio ‘goofs’

Time delay–a feature that allows deletion of serious blunders–has not always been a “backstop” when there’s tongue entanglement ...

Opinion

OPINION: We can’t allow China to buy Texas

We don’t make enough of our products in America anymore. We’ve known this for decades, but it became ...

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