Columns

by Barry Hastings Never believe a man who's always telling you to "Believe me." The Sunday morning news/talk shows on all the major (believable) networks were 85 percent Trump and…

Now that the political dust has somewhat settled, and with all the consternation and hand-wringing by the Democrats about Donald Trump’s win, they are still asking themselves “what the hell…

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” — British philosopher Samuel Johnson, 1775. These were harsh words from a great 18th century thinker and philosopher, but they become relevant…

by Barry Hastings That's Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler, who all began their dictatorial and murderous regimes by undermining, then destroying the free press in their respective nations,…

To those who claim skeptics of Global Warming or Global Climate Change are kooks, nuts or any other words of derision, let me remind you what “science” is, and the…

by Amy Kerr Hardin “For the party in control of the map-making, the main objective is to herd the opposing party’s voters into the fewest legislative districts possible while spreading…