I often joke with people that, since I was baptized as a baby in the Catholic church, and then came to trust Christ as my Savior later in a non-denominational church, then became a Baptist by doctrinal conviction at a yet later point, I have all of the bases covered in salvation.
Short definition of Shalom: a Hebrew word meaning peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity, welfare, and tranquility and can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye.
On The Journey, Judy Bowman
The recent political carnage on streets of major cities should not be taken lightly.
This just in: There's no wizard behind the curtain, and nobody's actually in charge. There's no shadowy cabal of billionaires scheming to bring about one-world government. To begin with, nobody clever enough to accumulate that much money believes that such a thing is A) remotely possible, or…
On June 14, 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. On Aug. 3, she was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate, with only three hardcore Republican conservatives opposing her.
The year from hell would seem to be a perfect fit for Halloween, but many people are asking: Can we trick-or-treat safely this year?
In a few days, we’ll know who President Trump wants to be the next Supreme Court justice. Republicans will praise her qualifications, her intellect, her judicial temperament. Democrats will oppose. There will be an opportunity for a real debate: Should the president’s nominee be confirmed to…
Of the many ways the American public is being taken for a ride by their health care establishment, the price gouging and profiteering by the prescription drug industry (Big Pharma) stands out.
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Burt rarely went out.
Job 14:1 — “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.”
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The taskbar in Windows is the bar normally across the bottom of the screen. However, it can be moved to any side of the screen, top, bottom, left or right, by clicking on it and holding the button down and dragging to where you want it.
WASHINGTON — The figure to keep in mind about this year’s race for the White House is that no president has won a second term in modern history when the unemployment rate was above 7.2%.
In my job as an education reporter, I frequently hear from parents and teachers complaining about overcrowded classrooms. These days, that usually means 25 or more students at a time. I don’t argue the point. The smaller the class size, the better, in every way.
We do not publish letters to the editor regarding candidates (for example, endorsing or criticizing a candidate) during the two weeks prior to an election. This policy helps ensure that readers will have time to respond to such a letter before the end of the election period. The deadline for…
President Trump officially began his 2020 campaign by attacking Joe Biden as a liberal ideologue determined to take us down the road to socialism and economic ruin. But this makes me wonder if this bird even understands what socialism actually is?
In the normal decimal number world, numbers are numbers and letters are letters except in places where we may call letters numbers, like in a car tag number.
Last fall, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a member of the National Security Council staff, was a star witness against President Trump at House impeachment hearings. Since then, he has left public view, left the White House and left the Army. Now, with an election approaching, he is launching wh…
The wanton, September 13, 2020 firing on two uniformed Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies while they sat in their marked police vehicle was an outrage. Other affronts emanated from that disgraceful attack: A witness to the assault is recorded cackling with delight after the gunfire. Outsi…
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My parents have been gone for years — my mother over forty, my father nearly three decades.
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I would be lying through my teeth if I claimed that my interest in my wife has always been purely spiritual, and that from the moment I met her, her walk with God, all by itself, was all that made my heart sing. Although I always have and still do love her for that, she also caught my eye ju…
I was in New York on that Sept. 11, 19 years ago. The darkness that descended that day and the hope that rose from it are indelible parts of everyone who lived through the attacks, especially, of course, those who lost family or friends that day. The tragedy and the lessons we learned from i…
In the real world — that is to say, the non-televised part of our lives remote from social media — we would shun somebody who went around spreading ugly rumors about neighbors, relatives or co-workers. Not that it never happens. I have a friend who resigned from a local charity after a cliqu…
I was grabbing a couple of sausage biscuits, and witnessed a couple of old codgers arguing over their coffee. One was a bit on the heavy side, with wild hair and a loud voice. The other was silver-haired, more soft-spoken, and would occasionally seem to lose his train of thought.
The Trump-Russia investigation effectively ended on July 24, 2019, the day special counsel Robert Mueller testified on Capitol Hill. Mueller’s halting presentation of his 400-plus-page report troubled both Republicans and Democrats. But of greater concern was this fact: After two years of in…
Although Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential electoral vote he was over two million votes short of having a popular majority. He claimed this was due to “millions of cases of voter fraud.” But like the rest of his off-the-wall accusations, there is no real evidence to support his claim.
Black lives matter. Let me state that again, lest anyone think I wrote it accidentally; black lives matter. How in the world could they not? The Bible tells us in Genesis 1:26-27 that mankind was “made in the image of God.” It further informs us in Acts 17:26 that God made all nations, meani…
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We are now into September of what has so far been a bummer of a year. My colleague, David Carroll, a Chattanooga TV anchor with whom I share the editorial page in several papers, calls 2020 “ the Edsel of years.” I wish I had thought of that line. I hate it when TV anchors are funnier than I am.
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Here are two interesting political straws in the wind: According to a recent poll in the Military Times, active duty service members favor Joe Biden over Boss Trump in the upcoming election, 41-37. Given that a poll on the same date in 2016 showed Trump favored by 20 points over Hillary Clin…
A heroin addict who died of an overdose. A war veteran who vividly recalls the clutches of PTSD. A woman offering herself — maybe the only thing she can sell — on an Atlanta street corner.
An open letter to the leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties: We’re giving you four years notice.
A new furor has erupted over Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe’s decision to give some members of Congress written updates on foreign election interference instead of in-person briefings. In the past, some Hill Democrats have spun and leaked information from the old oral brief…
Most of us could write volumes on the transgressions of our two major political parties. Historically, machine politics has been almost the exclusive domain of northern big-city Democrats. And although their reign ended with the 1968 Voting Rights Act, few political organizations were more c…
Remember the Tina Turner hit, “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” In the lyrics, love is referred to as a “second-hand emotion.” That song popped into my head as I watch what is happening to our country.
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Numbers loved me.
Files have two parts of their names. Often people only see the first part and think of that as the file name. However almost all files have a second part to their name which is the extension. The extension identifies what program the file is designed to be used with or the type of file.
When my family and I looked to move several years ago from a tiny, less-than-one-thousand square-foot house near the foot of the mountain to a house much more suitable for our family of five, I feared that even if we found an appropriately-sized house, I would never find one in a location th…
GUIs are Graphical User Interfaces. That is what the acronym is but what is it really. You may have heard people say computers now use GUIs
2020 has been the Edsel of years. For those who are too young to understand that ancient reference, it has been the New Coke of years. Am I still going back too far? OK, it’s been the Google Glass of years. There, I’ve covered every generation who may read this column. For all of us, the com…
It has long been accepted, at least in some circles, that there is a condition known as Trump Derangement Syndrome. But if there are still any skeptics out there, consider the reaction to first lady Melania Trump’s renovation of the White House Rose Garden.
