Thanksgiving is behind us and we have just celebrated yesterday the first Sunday of Advent, the time leading up to Christmas day when we celebrate the birth of Jesus. In today’s…
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Russ and Jane Witmer are educators and world travelers. Russ holds a Master of Arts degree in History and has taught history, political science, economics, and world civilizations on the middle school, high school, and college levels. Jane has a Masters of Science in Education with a double major in English and French and a Masters of Arts degree in English. She has taught English, French and composition in high school and college. They have traveled in fourteen European countries and in communist Czechoslovakia, as well as in Israel and Thailand.William Booth, a Methodist minister, left the traditional church in 1852 to take the message of salvation directly to the poor of London’s worst neighborhoods, establishing mission stations to feed…
In Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” a young girl falls down a rabbit hole and emerges into a fantasy world where playing cards are live, where a rabbit wears a…
Much remains to be concerned about in this country: the illegal alien invasion of America across our southern border; the worsening supply crisis which is leaving grocery shelves bare; the lack…
Italy just revised its COVID death toll, something the United States needs to do in order to be honest with its citizens. Italy had reported 130,000 COVID deaths (their population…
Something is going on that is not only a gross miscarriage of justice, but also far more un-American than the water-boarding of known terrorists that the Democrats screamed about for…
Many years ago, more than I want to calculate, I was taught how to type. That was using a manual typewriter, that’s how long ago, for those things are now antiques!…
I feel like I am ‘beating a dead horse’ — sorry PETA! — but this God-forsaken country seems to never go out of the news. Once again, the nation has managed to penetrate the interests…
The United Nations Development Program put out a bizarre video Wednesday of “Frankie” the computer-generated talking dinosaur. Frankie warns us not to choose “extinction” by ignoring the so-called Climate Crisis. Apparently, no…
Those commenting on the political landscape we now encounter are inundated with subjects on which to opine. Any complaint about our ruling ‘elites’ would include some or all of the following…