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bySo now the state of Kentucky is looking for a new way to kill its death row inmates. A few weeks ago the state…
So now the state of Kentucky is looking for a new way to kill its death row inmates. A few weeks ago the state…
The winds of winter are howling early this year; we’ve even had a pre-Thanksgiving tracking snow. For most of us, that means turning up…
Lost in the clatter and analysis that always follows a general election was this significant result: the voters, even in allegedly “red” or conservative…
Fear is a real and incredible thing. In some people it can produce a reservoir of courage they didn’t know they had. In others…
The “Francis effect” is by now a well known and a well-worn phrase. The pontiff, who still seems new to the job, has engaged…
It should be obvious to all of us by now that Mother Nature is fighting back. After years of watching carbon emissions foul the…
The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. “Whizzer” White once said that upon rising each morning, he’d have his breakfast while reading the…
On a recent evening a half-dozen diners engaged their waiter in good-natured conversation that evolved, over the courses of the meal, to a discussion…
While standing in line at a local hardware store recently, two men were discussing the state of the world and nation. It’s never been…
Pope Francis keeps doing remarkable things, and his recent trip to South Korea is just the latest example. Not only did he lift the…