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If you have been paying attention to media reports, many politicians, including some Republicans and those often-wrong pollsters, believe the November election is a foregone conclusion. According to them, Democrats will win a House majority and possibly take over the Senate, too. History proves it, they say, because the party out of power almost...Read more

The woman in the grocery store checkout line had an accent. While we waited for our items to be rung up, I asked her where she was from.

“Argentina,” she said.

“Is the inflation rate in Argentina under 100 percent yet?” I asked.

She smiled, “ That’s what the politicians say, but I never trust a politician.”

I laughed. What a ...Read more

When I attended a much different public school in suburban Maryland, there was a public service announcement on TV that asked: “It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”

I was usually in bed at that hour on “school nights,” but that question might be put a different way today: “It’s 9 a.m. Do you know what your ...Read more

Golden anniversaries used to be special celebrations in the days when people got married and stayed married.

This year marks the golden anniversary, not of a married couple, but of an organization that invests in the lives of people whom politicians largely ignore.

It’s called Prison Fellowship...Read more

“We are the United States of America and there is nothing we can’t do if we do it together.”– President Joe Biden

I am not in the habit of favorably quoting the former president, but he was right when he said this. Why, ...Read more