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Robert McDowell

The month of December has become meaningful for many

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Now that the celebration of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, we turn to some more serious observances in the month of December.  This began with the first Friday this year on December 7, Pearl Harbor Day. In my family, it has been nine years since my wife Anne was released…

What are our children being taught in the public schools?

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Just two weeks before the mid-term election day, on October 23, there was a mid-sized story, page width by 4.75 inches, which was buried within the obituary section of our daily news(?)paper with the headline: “U.S. report: Efforts to suck carbon from air must be ramped up.”  The headline makes one wonder if it really…

As a Christian nation, we enjoy freedom of religion

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In normal times, six days after a general election the results are known and final. As this is written, it seems as though in at least two states the final, unchangeable results are now decided. These, as anyone interested in the outcomes would know, are Arizona and Florida. And there may be a few other…

Political races aside, we had a great Veterans Day

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For a more pleasant change of pace after the recent hectic two-year election season, the need for more relaxing and pleasing subjects is obvious. One subject immediately evident is the immediate holiday now labeled “Veterans Day.” My church home, Kirk of the Hills-Presbyterian, has for the last several years on the last Thursday preceding November…

Why should we fret about things we cannot control?

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It seems to me that too many of us become overwhelmed come election time. Some friends and not-so-close acquaintances of mine seem to be on the verge of nervous breakdowns, almost from when the first campaign commercials surface and especially those ads that are blatantly lying or using derogatory language about an opponent. It has…

Network ‘news’ shows lack ordinary common sense

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There are numerous things that are irritating to me, and possibly many others of my pre-war education classes, so as space will permit it seems appropriate to check into some of them. In my lifetime, it has been observed that those whose agenda involves changes for which there is no logic or common sense are…

The nasty politics probably won’t end after the election

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This week becomes the final week leading up to the 2018 Mid-Term Election on November 6, which many have stated is “the most important in my lifetime.” Well, maybe not in mine, as the last presidential election was one of the most, if not the most, critical elections in my nine-decade memory. That includes those…

Our controversy is about man-made climate change

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Now that Judge Kavanaugh is officially Justice Kavanaugh, it is time to move on with the matters important to the well-being of our 241-year old republic. This nation was given to us by the divinely inspired members of what turned out to be the original Constitutional Convention. Noticeably absent from the news during the uproar…

Other nations must be fair about imports and exports

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Since PRESDT-45 has put in place tariffs on imports from nations (who have done the same to our exports to them), there has been a continuing outcry in media, at least in the local daily paper, that this will result in much higher prices for purchases here. That seems to be obvious, of course, but…

Kavanaugh circus shows we have too many judges

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In September, we experienced one of the most disgusting displays of incivility in the “hallowed halls of Congress” in my lifetime.  Certainly there have been others, but for sheer volume and intensity of ill will and verbosity, this one seems to take the cake. Of course, the subject of this monstrosity of indignity and lawlessness…