China recently launched a test missile that whirled around the entire planet traveling at five times the speed of sound and previewing hypersonic duplicates someday possibly threatening nuclear obliteration all over the place. Getting their adjectives mixed up, some say this could be the beg…
“They’re Coming to America” — Neil Diamond
LOS ANGELES — Sunday night, I flew into LAX from San Francisco and boarded a shuttle to the airport's newish pickup spot for ground transportation just east of Terminal 1. I found myself standing amid an unhappy crowd of restless travelers who had been waiting as long as 30 minutes to be pic…
Professionalism codes threaten students’ off-campus expression
When the Supreme Court rules in the coming months on the Mississippi and Texas laws substantially restricting abortions, it will do more than decide the future of its 1973 ruling legalizing a woman’s right to end her pregnancy.
“They said you were high class, but that was just a lie.” � Elvis Presley, “Hound Dog”
First came October’s ominous headlines from half a world away: China was suddenly darkening Taiwan’s air defense zone skies with record numbers of warplanes — 150 sorties in the first two weeks of October. Their undeclared fly-by missions were far more menacing than Beijing’s eruptions of pr…
Britain’s Home Office says more than 12,500 migrants have broken the law to get into the UK so far this year. Compare this to the nearly 200,000 migrants who have crossed the nearly nonexistent southern border just in July of this year. The count is estimated by the overwhelmed U.S. Customs …
The First Amendment isn’t just lofty language.
Americans continue to have a dim view of Congress. And for good reason.
Listened to any good books lately?
What is the greatest threat to educating children today? Is it COVID-19, or ignorance? I’m going for number two. There is growing evidence to back me up.
Motorists zipping down State Road in Lancaster this week could be forgiven for thinking they’d passed through some kind of time warp back to the 1970s when they got to the Kellogg’s cereal factory and saw several dozen workers walking a picket line, hoisting large signs reading “On Strike” o…
It was the week that President Joe Biden and the Democratic majorities in Congress came face-to-face with reality.
We Americans are 330,000,000 people trying to find a way to travel together to the same place. Or so we like to think.
It is a metaphor for what is occurring at seemingly all levels of our country and culture. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced it will slow service for first-class mail and periodicals while “temporarily” increasing prices on all “commercial and retail domestic” packages ..…
Dog ate state’s homework
Employers virtually everywhere are searching for employees, who seem in short supply even as unemployment claims continue to fall from their p…
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Colin Powell's efforts to build bridges, steer GOP from extremism:
Can someone please explain to me why the U.S.-Canadian border has just now opened up and the only way to get across is with proof of the vacci…
Wow. Decatur has the same recreation centers it had when I was a kid. Shameful. Same centers, but very few hours and activities. Shameful.
I am amazed by our department heads that are not interested in living in Decatur.
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