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With the 2024 election nearly a year away, it is impossible to predict outcome. It isn’t, however, too early to comment on Democrats’ election strategy as it pertains particularly to Joe Biden, assuming he remains his party’s candidate. Liberal cards will be placed on the table next year. Much will be determined by what lefties…

This column is prompted by the problems plaguing Missouri’s House Speaker Dean Plocher who is facing calls by his colleagues to resign because of financial double-dipping by seeking reimbursement from the House for travel expenses that had been paid by his campaign. His troubles continue a pattern of House speakers who have run into trouble…

I’m fairly tall. I present this information to any of our readers who haven’t met me in person. I topped out at about 6’2”, which puts me generally on the taller tier of everyday humans. For a few fleeting moments in my late teens and early twenties, being tall helped me do things like dunk…

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” ―Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol “I’m sorry we’re closed,” the man in the store told us. My heart broke as I looked at my dad, his eyes bright like a child. “Oh, please could you just let us in for…

This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This law prohibits disability-related discrimination in programs that are run by federal agencies or receive federal funding. It also protects federal employees and contractors from discrimination. Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act requires that federal contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to…

While I was driving in the rain one night recently, I couldn’t help but think of a joke that’s really big with the cervid population these days: two deer are taking their time crossing the road one night when suddenly they’re bathed in light from something cresting the hill in front of them. One of…

I keep track of all the birds I have seen on this wilderness ridge where I live and there is a huge list after living here more than 30 years. Several are very rare. The rarest of all showed up about 15 years ago this month … a bird never known to the Ozarks a…

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Somewhere between the holidays that let you dress up like a ghost and the one where you put up a tree and celebrate on earth peace, good will toward men – somewhere nestled in November is Thanksgiving Day. It might be my favorite, but it’s pretty underrated at times. I wonder if people are making…

It may be hard to agree on America’s greatest problem because there are so many. Is our greatest problem our Southern border which leaks thousands of immigrants every day with the passive approval of an ineffectual government that offers no explanation or solution to why it is the way it is? Is that the one?…