Smokey Bear is celebrating his 75th birthday as a public servant dedicated to protecting our forests.
Coaching was my life for a long time. Then it was part of my life for an even longer time. There’s a difference.
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I want to update you on what happened at the Town Hall meeting concerning EtO at the Bard plants in Covington and Madison.
During a December 2015 debate among Republican presidential candidates in Las Vegas, former Florida governor Jeb Bush said to Donald Trump: “You can’t insult your way to the presidency.”
Some retailers insist on good customer service, while others treat it as an afterthought. A few years ago, I entered a certain supermarket, we’ll call it Chain Store 1, and during my brief visit, a sudden rain shower began. The employees practically smothered me as I started to exit, offering the use of an umbrella or rain coat, and even offering to fetch my car.
I love to watch people.
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Sometimes it takes a long time before you’re able to pay forward a kindness. This one took me 12 years to repay.
The headline screamed at me from the front page of the big city newspaper. It was above an article talking about how, since schools were back in session, the police were being kept very busy.
First, in the aftermath of these horrific atrocities, finger-pointing is not helpful and only more divisive.
President Trump has repeatedly promised, “America will never be a socialist country.” Since Franklin Roosevelt began expanding government in the 1930s, the United States has increasingly adopted big-state policies associated with socialism.
There are some experiences each of us share in common occasionally.
After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, investigators discovered that the lone man assigned to guard the president, John Parker, had abandoned his post to watch the play from an adjacent box at Ford’s Theater. Worse, at intermission, Parker adjourned to a nearby saloon to have drinks with some friends. It was during the second act that John Wilkes Booth entered the president’s box and shot him.
What do the French digital services tax, the employers’ share of payroll taxes and the corporate income tax all have in common? They are rarely shouldered by those entities and individuals targeted by legislators. In fact, one of the most important things to know about taxes is that the peop…
Are we in the dog days yet? If we aren’t, I don’t want to know what it feels like when dog days get here.
What happens to our children has great ramifications both for our children and for us.
I visited St. Petersburg, Russia this week, which is like the Big Bear’s picture postcard or the good china it gets out when friends visit.
A couple of years ago, Tink and I had the opportunity — which turned out to be an honor and a privilege — to work with Dolly Parton on a television project.
Politicians and pundits are promoting familiar explanations, excuses and demands following the tragic mass murders in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. From more gun laws, to blaming President Trump, conservative talk radio and Fox News, we’ve heard it all before.
One reason I taught school for so long, 38 or 39 years (I lost count), was because I got to teach young people like Maria Kelly.
Former South Carolina governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has urged President Trump and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-MD to stop exchanging insults over conditions in Baltimore.
It is very important that you keep your original Last Will and Testament (“2ill”) in a safe place to protect it from loss, damage, destruction or theft.
A lot of people want to write. A lot of people think they have a book inside them bursting to get out. A lot more people think they do than do.
There’s something awful special about seeing the South from the pavement of asphalt back roads mostly forgotten by the majority of population. It is there among scrub pines, pecan trees and cattle watering in a nearby stream, that you will behold a sight that soothes the soul.
Calling someone "racist" has become the default position for liberal politicians and certain members of the media who wish to deflect attention from real problems.
Some drug addicts are complaining that drug company addiction to money has contributed to the problem of addiction to drugs.
Really now, where would we be if it were not for the long suffering patience of God in dealing with us difficult human beings?
I’m still waiting for my latest mail-in rebate. Unlike many American consumers, I’m watching this one like a hawk. I’ve saved my store receipt, my rebate receipt, and all of the instructions, and I’ve copied each one. The dishwasher manufacturer and the big-box store that sold me the dishwasher are gambling that I’ll forget about it. But I’ll show them.
There are some things you don’t miss until you don’t have them anymore.
The Washington Post, which has done everything in its dwindling power with articles, editorials and columns denouncing, demeaning and attempting to destroy President Trump, appears to have temporarily — but only temporarily — raised the white flag. A headline following former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s appearance before two House committees said: “Democrats struggle to figure next move against Trump after Mueller Hearing falls flat.”
In the summer of 1986, it might have been hard to choose who was more miserable: The farmers of the deep South or me.
The initial characteristic of a nation’s greatness is its sense of spiritual destiny.
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We need another issue to investigate soon. It shouldn’t be hard to find something.
The Founders of the United States of America warned against massive federal debt, but, to our detriment, their political descendants are not paying attention. The Founders speak to us from their graves to condemn and warn of the consequences now that President Trump and Congress have come to an agreement about lifting the meaningless “debt ceiling” and increasing already massive federal spending and the debt, which is at $22 trillion and growing rapidly.
Once I had free television shows considered worth watching. Now, I am loaded down with news, public affairs and reality shows.
For safety reasons, fire marshals control the number of people who can occupy a building at any one time. We’ve seen what happens when crowds get too large and a fire breaks out, causing panic and often death. So why not control the crowd illegally entering America?
I was reminded Sunday of why I fell in love with baseball.
The phrase “America, Love It or Leave It” has a pedigree dating back at least to the McCarthy Era. In the ’70s, the phrase was employed again against those protesting America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The left has its own version, vowing to leave the country if a Republican is elected president. They rarely do.
I have never lived in California, but many people say there is no better place to live.
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Consider Michael Collins. He will be 89 years old on Halloween. I think he’s going to trick-or-treat as an astronaut, which is what he was in 1969, at the age of 39.
Did you miss jury duty in Rockdale County? Here's what to do.
You had to be there 50 years ago, and I was. As a young reporter for a local TV station in Houston, I frequently visited NASA (“the space base,” we dubbed it), met many of the astronauts and reported on their exploits.
On July 20, 1969 — with five months to spare for JFK’s promise — Apollo 11 landed on the moon’s surface. “Houston—Tranquility Base. The Eagle has landed.”
“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
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As often I say, it is enlightening to see the South from a non-Southerner’s perspective.
We hear a great deal about e-scooters these days.
Two summers ago on a visit to Budapest, I asked the spokesman for the Hungarian government about the growing problem of migrants coming into Europe. He told me Hungary doesn’t have a migrant problem because they don’t have welfare programs. So, he said, migrants continue their travels to other European countries that do.
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I wonder how many kids get summer jobs these days.
Rep. Justin Amash has left the Republican Party and will now represent Michigan’s third congressional district as an Independent. In a Washington Post op-ed, he wrote: “I’ve become disenchanted with party politics and frightened by what I see from it. The two-party system has evolved into an existential threat to American principles and institutions.”
President Donald Trump likes to keep score. Well, here's a score for him: America, zero; while the rest of the world keeps tallying up free trade points.
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