Posts By: occh4@comcast.net

Words of a Warrior

“In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans, who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in

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September to Remember

It’s supposed to be the time when summer slips into fall. The temperature cools down. The foliage makes us appreciate the world around us. There is good news for parents as their kids go back to school. Kids not so much. So, what the hell happened? The month started with a blast of record hot

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Shades of Darkness and Light

It caught my eye as my wife and I walked through The Jenkintown Arts Festival. We were looking for new art for the house by a local artist. We actually came back to it twice before buying it. We wanted to check out as many artists as we could. There were dozens. But I was

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Catch Me If You Can

It’s day eleven. He’s still on the loose. He could be caught by the time you read this. But, so far he’s like trying to find a shadow in the night. This has a been the summer of extreme heat, wild fires, floods, and Trump indictments. But no story has shaken people  in Chester County,

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Wrong House

It keeps happening. This time it was a twenty-year old University of South Carolina student who banged on the wrong door at two-o’clock in the morning. Earlier this year, it was a Missouri teenager going to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers. In rural New York, a car full of young people

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Stage Fright

There is only one thing you need to know about last night’s Republican candidates’ debate. It doesn’t matter what they tried to sell as their policy positions or their shots at the other candidates. Whether it was Pence saying he was proud he followed the constitution and did his job when he certified Biden’s 2020

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Victory for the Children

This week a judge in Montana, of all places, took a small step for clean, healthier air. It took a bunch of kids, with the help of some adults to make it happen. The case was called Held v. The State of Montana. It was brought by Our Children’s Trust on behalf of a group

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Slow Burn, Flash Fire

We are on fire and it’s only getting worse. During this Fourth of July holiday week, we endured the four hottest days in modern Earth history, or at least since we started keeping records of such things in 1940. The planet experienced the hottest June ever recorded. Heat has ripped across the world from the

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Getting Older

Have you noticed there are more old people around? It’s not your imagination. A story in the New York Times this morning confirms our worst fears. The US Census Bureau says the median age in the country is 38.9 years. To put that in perspective, the median age in 2000 was 35 and in 1980

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Hoarder, Hypocrites, and the Hunter

It was the pictures that may be the most shocking part of the thirty-seven count indictment against Donald Trump. Boxes and boxes of classified and top secret documents piled up in a shower, bedroom, ballroom stage, storage rooms, and an office. One photograph shows the boxes spilled out on the floor after they fell off

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