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Today is the last day of the current session of the US Supreme Court. It’s a day we will long remember and live to regret. Four of the many rulings handed down will touch everyone of us. Of course, the most infamous was the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the right to abortion

It’s not often you witness a one in a million coincidence. My wife and I were working on the lawn at our Jersey shore house when a young man was riding by on a bike about ten feet from the curb. There are three sycamore trees along the sidewalk in front of the house. As

When the January 6th Committee started laying out its case against Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results and stage a coup, there is one thing that is at the center of this dangerous time in our history, truth. It’s something Trump couldn’t handle and he convinced millions of Americans his twisted view

It’s here. Next weekend is Memorial Day. The start of the summer. After two summers of Covid, we’ve all been looking forward to getting back to normal. But what is normal? Inflation is at a forty year high. Everything costs more. Who predicted over $4.50 for a gallon of gasoline? Madman Putin is committing mass

No matter your views on abortion, we have all been shocked by the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion by Justice Alito, supported by five of the conservative justices, that would overturn Roe v. Wade. It would leave it up to states whether to allow abortion or ban it. About twenty states are almost certain

I first met Phineas and Gene fifty-five years ago. I was sixteen years old as they were. Recently I was roaming around a used bookstore. It even had boxes of books on its front porch. As I scanned the titles of hardcovers and paperbacks, there it was, a well worn paperback of “A Separate Peace”.

In the last two weeks we have watched innocent women and children bombed and murdered in their neighborhoods in Ukraine. They have jammed into trains in a desperate effort to flee to safety and the unknown. The men have stayed behind to fight the superior Russian army as it slogs its way through their country.

Adam could not look at the flashing cursor anymore. It was relentless. Just pushing and pushing him to start writing. He felt as if it was saying, “Okay big shot, your first novel was such a success, let’s see you do it again.” He was renting his friend’s beach house for a week just to

The bald eagle, our national bird, is everywhere. It’s on the great seal of the United States. It was adopted as the emblem of the country in 1787. It’s on every one dollar bill, coins, and passports. It’s up there with the flag, Liberty Bell, and Statue of Liberty as a universal symbol of American

These two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl is designed to get us all revved up for the big game. We have the Cincinnati Bengals who everyone thought would have to buy tickets to get into the game. They have the story of the Boy Wonder Joe Burrow who’s leading the Bengals out of