From the Watertown N.Y. Daily Times
From The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Looking out the kitchen windows located on the south side of the Henley hacienda, a couple of hundred yards or so beyond Chestnut Street, is a tree-covered hillside.
From The Baltimore Sun
The Christmas season is now official.
THANKSGIVING DAY, even in the best of times, is notable for two things that usually have little, if anything, in common.
From The Kansas City Star
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From the McCook (Neb.) Daily Gazette
It is not uncommon to see a vehicle parked on the side of the road, the victim of some sort of mechanical failure. However, considering all the traffic which passes through Riverview Park, I a…
Fingers pointing at each other, they stood in front of a sink full of dishes fighting the same fight that breaks out every single time I ask for help around the house.
To The Courier-Post:
As more and more cases of the coronavirus are being reported in almost every region of the country, I was not the least bit surprised by the results of a couple of surveys which appeared in my…
From The Auburn Citizen of New York
My first marriage ended on a Tuesday afternoon as we battled over finances on the front porch.
From The Wall Street Journal
NEWS THAT a vaccine under development against the novel coronavirus is 90% effective comes as a welcome message as America’s health care system deals with a COVID-19 surge.
NEWS THAT a vaccine under development against the novel coronavirus is 90% effective comes as a welcome message as America’s health care system is dealing with a COVID-19 surge.
To The Courier-Post:
The Supreme Court stimulates America’s most vibrant industry, which manufactures synthetic hysteria. The nomination to the court of Amy Coney Barrett occasioned high-decibel warnings that her …
By From The Kansas City Star
By THE KANSAS CITY STAR
Lest it get lost in the ballot-counting frenzy: The house is still very much on fire. And regardless of who ultimately controls the White House and Congress next year, those currently in offic…
From The Chicago Tribune
When it came time to look for the house that would become the Henley hacienda back in the mid ‘80s, I thought it would be neat to have a home with a fireplace.
AS COVID-19 deaths have soared to 235,000 in the United States, the loss of life due to drug overdoses has been largely overlooked.
It is now 12:30 in the morning, and my column is due by noon tomorrow.
From The New York Times
In the smoldering aftermath of an electoral outcome that the nation needed to avoid, but that the president and his party hoped and planned for, the American project is more battered than at a…
NOBODY KNOWS who has won the presidential race just yet and that means there will be anxious days ahead for all Americans.
Thank God that’s over — even if it’s (maybe) not quite.
From THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
The relationship I have with my wife of 45 years, Nancy, began not when we were in high school, but when we were both students at Rolla Junior High School. She was a cute cheerleader and I was…
In the middle of his first year in office, President Donald Trump endorsed a bill so radically anti-immigrant that even most Senate Republicans couldn’t stomach it.
From The Quad City Times
VOTERS WILL decide the race for president, choose members of Congress and fill leadership roles much closer to home on Tuesday.
By a circuitous route to a predictable destination, the 2020 presidential selection process seems almost certain to end Tuesday with a fumigation election. A presidency that began with dark wo…
From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
I am not a woman of few words. Most of the time, I have too many. At least that’s what people tell me. And by people, I mean my husband.
From THE AMERICAN PRESS (LOUISIANA)
With the Senate’s confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump has cemented his legacy as the most important president in the modern era when it comes to shap…
A flub, a gaffe, a red flag for radicalism. At the final presidential debate last week, Democratic nominee Joe Biden stumbled worse than he has in ages — at least according to Republicans.
From THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
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In 1906, Werner Sombart, the German economist, explained America's resistance to socialism in five words, "roast beef and apple pie," his shorthand for affluence. In 2020, however, semi-social…
From THE DETROIT NEWS
A couple of Saturdays ago, with a bill needing to be dropped in the mail and the outdoor temperature quite comfortable for mid-October, rather than grabbing the car keys and driving to the pos…
You’re the best waitress we’ve ever had!”
At a first glance, the final presidential debate might have seemed to some like a draw. President Donald Trump had arguably his best debate performance ever and did not alienate the reluctant …
From THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH