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January 17, 2025
A Town Cut in HalfWhen I think of Altadena, California, I think of the amazing trees and the beautiful people. Christmas Tree Lane, right in the heart of last week’s Eaton Fire, was a December drive-through destination, where a volunteer community gro...
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November 3, 2024
A Cause We All Can SupportMany of us grew up singing the lovely Christmas lullaby “Away in a Manger,” and some of us remember hearing this lovely tune as we went to sleep. It’s a song that reminds us that Jesus himself loves all the little childre...
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September 28, 2024
When Kamala shoots, will she be laughing?Kamala Harris’s handlers are scrambling full-time to cover for her comment to Oprah Winfrey this last Thursday that she is a gun owner and “if somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot.” Then she added, “My staff will deal with that later,...
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March 12, 2022
The true atrocity that separates Russia and UkraineWhile the present Russian forces kill, maim, and attempt to destroy a people along with their culture, they argue that the Ukrainians are nothing more than Slavic Russians with an accent and that Ukraine has always been "part" of greater Ru...
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January 18, 2022
Maskedness is a new religionSometimes culture shock doesn't require a trip to a foreign country. Culture shock can and does happen right at home. In the political realm, we have been served up enough shock over the past few years to last us a lifetime....
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April 22, 2021
Kamala Harris, the missing czarAfter Kamala got surprised (it seemed) by Joe's announcement that she was taking over the "crisis" at the southern border, she has made herself almost invisible in the administration — at least in relation to anything that has to ...
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January 21, 2021
Like good little doggies, Joe Biden wants 'a time to heel' for conservativesThe guy who ran on a minimalist platform of being "Mr. Nice" and saying it is now "a time to heal in America" ran as far from those nebulous promises as possible as he got set for his inauguration. Just as during the campaign, ...
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January 15, 2021
Karma will not be kind to sore winner DemocratsI find it amazing, but not surprising, that so soon after winning the White House and a majority of the legislative seats, the Democrats cannot be satisfied with their victory, however tainted. Rather, they are after blood, and they want i...
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December 30, 2020
America's political process is sliding into third-world statusPresident Ronald Reagan's inauguration took place on January 20, 1981 — this while we were living in a South American country. It was the first time that a U.S. presidential inauguration appeared on television in that particular ...
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December 25, 2020
Joe Biden as the paragon of large-scale elder abuseWatching Joe Biden lose it publicly (to put it kindly) has been a sad and disturbing spectacle in our country's recent political experience. My personal response to his verbal and emotional slip-ups when off script (and sometimes on sc...
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September 16, 2020
What 'Made in USA' used to meanSoon after arriving in a South American country to work in 1978, after some years in South Asia, I was talking with a local mechanic about a used car I was trying to get fixed. The fact that it was a Chevy seemed to excite the mechanic, an...
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April 6, 2020
A Look at How South America Is Handling COVID-19At this moment, a cruise ship up from Antarctica, the Greg Mortimer, is stuck off the coast of Uruguay with a bunch of Australians who really want to get back home. Uruguay's March 13 emergency decree in response to the COVID-19 pandem...
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March 13, 2020
Hell, yes, they’re going to take my AR-14 and my AK-46!The "gun problem" for the Democrats and the left is a thorny issue that Joe Biden is realizing cuts right across demographic lines, including even historic Democrat-supporting factory workers who happen to own a gun or two. No one questi...
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March 4, 2020
No Lenin, No Trotsky, No BernieWhen I was a kid in the 1950s, I attended a school summer camp where one of the fireside songs, sung to a Russian tune, was: No Lenin, no Trotsky, No Russian diplomatsky Will ever form a plotsky To overthrow the Czar. Hey! We all knew what h...