I have a degree in communication studies, and I say that not as a credential to lean on, but as a lens through which I can’t help but view the world. It shapes how I listen, how I respond, and how I observe the ways we connect, or increasingly, how we don’t. And lately, if I’m honest, ...
On Twitter, I noted that a lot of actual, practicing Christians, not people who call themselves Christians, will stop voting if both parties keep nominating moral cretins insisting that people of faith choose between the lesser of two evils. It is still a choice for evil. Christians are ...
At first, it didn't sound right. Someone must have miscalculated. How could there be so much fraud that has robbed taxpayers of billions of dollars without anyone seeming to notice? Worse, it appears they didn't seem to care. Vice President JD Vance convened a meeting on Tuesday of his Task ...
I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of the low-head dam on Blue River. May 31 is National Dam Safety Awareness Day, and I wanted to learn why the Sam Shine Foundation was committed to dam ...
I consider myself a man of routines. Others, unfortunately, have called me a creature of habits. Obviously one of those descriptions is positive, the other not so much. I will let those of you who know me well have the final say as to which is more accurate. Harry Truman had a sign in his ...
Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco and visited Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's epic mansion in San Simeon. It was state property then, donated by the Hearst family, and ...