Morality, honor, integrity — these words are thrown about by pundits, politicians, preachers and ordinary folk alike. We decry the lack of such in our leaders, political and otherwise. But…
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In 17th Century New England, a young woman, a widow who believes her husband was lost at sea, is publicly humiliated by her townspeople because she had a child out-of-wedlock. …
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With the apparent inability of the Republican members of Senate to agree upon a replacement bill for Obamacare, Democrats are gleefully celebrating. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) insists that now Republicans and…
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I must admit I grew up in a different age than most people in this great nation. Without elaboration on my own upbringing, I often think of how some of…
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It has long been accepted that words matter. We know that speeches by those who want their hearers to act have an effect on those who hear. A brief look…
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Not long ago at a town hall meeting, Representative Martha McSally, (R-Arizona) was met with the now usual raucous crowd of left-wing demonstrators who disrupted the meeting, making it impossible…
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Martin Luther King, Jr. must be turning over in his grave as the grandchildren of those who marched with him in Selma, Alabama and in Washington D.C. to achieve desegregation…
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Through the years, Americans have welcomed immigrants from all over the world to our shores: Swedes, Norwegians, Irish, Germans, Poles, Russians, Scots, Central Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, South Americans –…
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In April, I returned to a small Iowa town to visit the church where over sixty-five years ago I became a Christian. The small frame church building looked much the…
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We live in a nation that is the “land of the free”, as we are told in the national anthem, and as it is declared in our Declaration of Independence….
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