“My father taught me to work; he didn’t teach me to love it.” Abraham Lincoln This is the time of year when kids start looking for jobs … or at least, if it’s your kids … you hope they do. My parents never had to tell me to get a…

“I’ve heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We’d see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.” ― Cherie Priest / Author My wife subscribes to a magazine titled “Garden & Gun”. The name tells you everything … kind of like…

Ah, that time of year, when families load up the car and head off for a road trip. When it starts, Mom and Dad say, kids, this is going to be exciting and so much fun; the kids look at them with that look that says … are you serious???…

IRS … New Poll A CNN poll shows more Americans believe that senior White House officers ordered the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative political groups. The report just released this morning also indicates that a majority of those surveyed believe the controversy is very important to the nation. Last…

A reader called my attention to Peggy Noonan’s recent article in the Wall Street Journal. It was titled: Privacy Isn’t All We Are Losing … The Surveillance state threatens Americans’ love of country. Noonan is a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal; previously, she was primary speech writer and…

I’ve never been one to argue about religion. I will share my beliefs with you, and they are essential to my faith, but I’m not interested in arguing over religion — even if we are of the same religion. So, I’m not going to debate what an Oklahoma minister did,…

Edward Snowden admits he leaked details of a secret government program collecting massive phone and Internet data. He immediately triggered a major news story that is still growing; in fact, there are reports that even more information will be coming. Snowden was a contractor with the National Security Agency and…

I appreciate that so many of you have asked if I would resume the Friday tradition of AN AMERICAN STORY. I’m glad that you have enjoyed them and this is the first on this new FB page. In the future, I might repeat someprevious stories knowing that now I’m also…

I want to call your attention to an article this week (June 5) by Jude Eden for The Western Center for Journalism. Extortion 17 was the call sign of a special operations mission in Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011; the mission was responding to backing up an Army Ranger unit…

JOURNALISTIC BALANCE: how does the public “right to know” compare to “victim privacy”? A standard rule in journalism is … no rape or sexual assault victim will be identified unless the victim chooses to have the publicity. One other exception comes into play if the victim was murdered and the…