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What to do about that Russian ultimatum

“Get off our front porch. Get out of our front yard. And stay out of our backyard.”This might stand as a crude summary of two draft security pacts Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei A. Ryabkov delivered last week as RussiaĢƵ price for resolving the crisis created by those 100,000 Russian ...

Christ’s Mass

For a fuller account of the story relating to the Birth of Christ, one is always directed to Luke Ch2, Matt 1:18-25 and Matt Ch2. The reader can easily harmonize the account and see for themselves the associated drama and scope of reality. As history unfolded, bringing us to today, Christians ...

Seven senators who go back to Civil War days

WASHINGTON – When I walk by John Calhoun in the Capitol, I stare at his severe portrait and ask, are you happy now with democracy cracking up? And I swear the ghost says yes, fire burning in his eyes.Make no mistake, this Southern senator isn’t a vestige of the antebellum past. CalhounĢƵ ...

Socially deviant parents of school shooters

After the 2012 massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, then-Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, evaded calls for banning weapons of war. But he had other ideas. The “more realistic discussion,” Rogers said, is “how do we target people with mental illness who use ...

Dems may be too late with projects

In politics, timing is everything. Democrats have a timing problem.At issue is the rollout of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure program passed by bipartisan votes in Congress, but whose journey through the congressional meat grinder was largely engineered by Democrats, including the Biden White ...

Why the storm

I could compile a list a mile long of bad, wrong, unfortunate, tragic, and harmful things that occur, happen, and victimize each of us as we travel along in this life. Bad times come and go, and some may say, “and this too shall pass” to soften the bruising impact of a dark valley.There is ...