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Postal service to end Saturday delivery
Columns Comments Updated: Feb 14, 2013 10:19pmOver the years I have received checks, bills, job offers and even boxes of baby chicks by mail. Now the U.S. Postal Service, authorized on July 26, 1775, by the Second Continental Congress, has...
Forget the roses and celebrate Valentine’s Day every month
Columns Comments Updated: Feb 14, 2013 10:17pmCan someone please explain to me what giving roses, chocolate and diamonds has to do with building true, everlasting, unconditional love?
Every year we pull out this recipe and every year...
Has time come for women in combat roles?
Columns Comments Updated: Jan 28, 2013 1:54pmHas time come for women in combat roles?
Columns Comments Updated: Jan 28, 2013 1:54pmFixing a mental health system takes time
Columns Comments Updated: Jan 22, 2013 10:08amMy wife has suggested that I have a mental health problem when she finds me talking to myself. I have never told her that a former school teacher suggested talking to myself while refining a...
Warm spells are just what we need for southern snowmen
Columns Comments Updated: Jan 21, 2013 2:32pmThanks to a recent warm spell, I had the pleasure of getting my fingernails filthy. My holiday decorations had to stay out a bit longer this year because I was outside during much of the weekend...
Tax Prius drivers, shoppers, but not the gas guzzlers
Columns Comments Updated: Jan 15, 2013 9:12amVirginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has a proposal to solve his state’s long-term budget problems. He wants to eliminate the taxes on gasoline and start taxing Prius drivers and shoppers in general to...
Congress is a frat party with pricy booze
Columns Comments Updated: Jan 08, 2013 8:31amA decade or so ago I was asked by a representative of the U.S. State Department to meet with a Turkish legislator and explain our system of government to the visitor to the city where I then...
Turning schools into armories won’t stop carnage
Columns Comments Updated: Dec 24, 2012 8:13amDuring the week following the horror at Sandy Hook Elementary School, ideas for preventing more massacres were coming from all directions.
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., called for using...
Santa Claus not real? That’s ridiculous!
Columns Comments Updated: Dec 24, 2012 8:03amSome disturbing news passed through my noise reception air space recently. Are you aware there are people who don’t believe in Santa Claus? Not only do they not believe, but they tell their...