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An Excellent Interview

October 18, 2018 Dan Keating

The Wall Street Journal ran an article by Jillian Kay Melchior entitled, “The Scourge of Diversity.” The column is about Heather Mac Donald, a one-time liberal who now believes identify politics threatens higher education and civilization itself. You may recall that it was Heather Mac Donald who was chased away from invited scheduled speeches by…

Other nations must be fair about imports and exports

October 18, 2018 Robert McDowell

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…

Trials become a door of hope for others

October 18, 2018 Walker Moore

Ever since our children have grown up and moved out of the house, I have made it a habit to assist my wife as she shops for groceries. When we enter the store, she gives me the significant task of finding a product like toothpicks. Toothpicks are in the grocery store witness protection program, and…

Unlocking our vast natural resources

October 18, 2018 Jay Lehr Tom Harris

Just over a decade ago, America’s energy outlook was revolutionized by technological advances in hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking.” While fracking, the injection of high-pressure water, sand and chemicals into rock to force natural gas and oil to be released, has been used in vertical wells since 1947, new techniques of horizontal drilling are resulting…

Here are tips about when you leave a tip and how much

October 11, 2018 Charles Biggs

What are the rules for tipping? When I grew up in Tulsa, you hardly ever tipped. When I was a kid, I thought that paying for a meal should be enough. When I grew up, I found out that waiters and waitresses don’t make that much in hourly pay and they depend on tips to…

Missed Opportunities and Failed Processes

October 11, 2018 Dan Keating

The New York Times recently wrote about a young man age 12 named T.J., who was classified as having a disability. Young T.J. was one of 200,000 students in New York City public schools classified as having a disability, which can be anything from mild dyslexia to a complex physical disorder. The story refers to…

Kavanaugh circus shows we have too many judges

October 11, 2018 Robert McDowell

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…

A lonely place versus the ‘green room’

October 11, 2018 Walker Moore

I have the privilege of speaking at some of the largest churches in the United States. Because the services are televised worldwide and the messages have mass exposures, there are sometimes threats from unstable individuals. When I preach in these churches, I must follow their protocols. One megachurch where I preach has a bodyguard who…

Trump’s EPA is rolling back ridiculous car standards

October 11, 2018 Jay Lehr Tom Harris

It began to go wrong in the late 1950s when M. King Hubbert of the U.S. Geological Survey predicted that America would start to run out of oil by the end of the 1960s. His prediction was called Peak Oil, defined as the point at which our nation, and perhaps the world, would use more…

Offshore exploration make sense

October 11, 2018 Bethany Marcum

Several states are preparing to sue the federal government. They’re trying to halt Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s planned expansion of offshore oil and natural gas drilling. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the most vocal opponent of Sec. Zinke’s plan, claims the drilling “threatens our environment and our economy.” He’s wrong on both counts. The…