It must be a grown-up thing, but every time I see Beto O’Rourke, I want to fix him a hamburger. He’s precious.
By complete accident – something that Mama would never have predicted – I became a good biscuit maker.
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Every time — every single time — I think I have heard everything, I hear something else.
One of the rotten fruits produced by what passes for today’s American education system is the ignorance some young people have about socialism.
Needless to say, Jesus’ legacy reflects his life. It was and is a legacy of love, and it cost him his life.
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It just so happened that Tink and I had gone to the Dairy Shake to grab lunch. We were talking about cell phones and landlines.
It is important that we people of faith be clear that human tragedy is not the will of God.
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) comment that the influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington pushes lawmakers to take a pledge of “allegiance to a foreign country” was bad enough.
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Familiarity breeds contempt. Or it doesn’t.
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Southerners sometimes use funerals for entertainment the way the British use polo games.
The president of the United States gave a rambling and incoherent two-hour speech in which he raved like a lunatic and told crazy, self-serving lies from start to finish. If that no longer qualifies as alarming, we’re in serious trouble.
The minister said he was amazed how this fun little exercise stirred in him a passion to live a richer, fuller life.
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I am glad I was in Africa while my brothers and sisters in the once united Methodist Church were cutting one another to shreds at the recent general conference in St. Louis. I am glad that I only caught glimpses of the terrible things that people representing Jesus Christ were saying about one another in the name of love and unity.
Here’s a sentence I never thought I would write: Dianne Feinstein was right.
“Let’s all be on the right side of history,” a jubilant Spike Lee said Sunday night as he accepted his Oscar. He needn’t have worried. Hollywood seems to have gotten the message.
When I was growing up in the rural South, things were simple. Life was enjoyable and, though we didn’t know it then, we savored those days.
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I will readily admit that until a few weeks ago I wouldn’t have known Jusse Smollette if he jumped up and “bit me on the buttocks” — to quote Forrest Gump. He and I don’t travel in the same circles, and I had never seen any of his film work or heard any of his music.
One might think that after denying the evidence of Adolf Hitler’s rise and objectives that resulted in World War II, Europeans might be more attuned to modern threats.
My favorite Johnny Cash gospel rendering, then and now, is the Carl Perkins’ composition, “Daddy Sang Bass.”
The greatest power we possess is the power to choose.
My first reaction upon hearing that hundreds of leaders in the Southern Baptist church had sexually abused as many as 700 people in 400 churches, including victims as young as 3, was “how could they?”
Something nudged me the other day and sent me to a closet where high on a shelf, tucked back in a corner, was a collection of Mama’s gatherings.
Let’s consider some real news, for a change: Last year was officially proclaimed the fourth-warmest on record; scientists predict that melting ice in Antarctica and Greenland could not only raise sea levels but further destabilize weather patterns; and progressive members of Congress are proposing a “Green New Deal,” the first policy framework ambitious enough to meet the challenge of global warming.
If you weren’t impressed by President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address Tuesday night you either didn’t listen to it or you are too closed-minded to admit that the Orange Man can do anything right—or some combination of the two.
Eloquence is not a characteristic associated with President Donald Trump, but in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, the president not only rose to the occasion, he also delivered a message that was beautifully crafted by his speechwriters, a speech devoid of much of the divisive and combative language that has characterized his first two years in office.
There are 8.5 million Virginians. Surely the commonwealth can find someone to serve as governor whose yearbook page does not prominently feature a picture of a broadly grinning young white man in blackface and another wearing Ku Klux Klan robes.
I work by the click of my fingers with the thoughts that flicker both frivolously and seriously through my mind.
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When I retired from teaching, six years ago, I bemoaned the fact that I would no longer be getting snow days or sick days. The former were a lot more rare when I first entered the education profession, in 1974. It actually had to snow.
One of the few advantages of changing addresses is that you sometimes discover long-forgotten items.
Chances are, that if you’ve ever heard me speak more than once, you’ve heard me tell the inspiring story of working with Darrell Waltrip in 1989 when he won his only Daytona 500 by taking a big gulp of a risk.
Just what we need, another ego-crazed billionaire with zero experience in government who thinks he is destined to be president. What could go wrong?
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Round and round and round we go, and where we stop nobody knows. Speaking now of the world and the continued circus that is the government shutdown.
The major media have gone gaga over the number of women newly elected to Congress and those announcing their run for the White House in 2020, with more female candidates likely to follow suit.
Mildly stated, this issue of miracles has been a troubling one.
The album consisted mostly of black and white photos with a smattering of color Kodak snapshots from the 1960s tossed in.
As the shambolic Trump presidency caroms and lurches into Year Three, a shameful governing philosophy has emerged: cruelty for cruelty’s sake.
Nancy Pelosi isn’t worried about security. She invited the president to deliver the State of the Union on Jan. 3, 13 days after the partial government shutdown began.
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What if there was a country that had a leader who, no matter what he said or did, half the country and virtually all the mainstream media just sat around like a duck waiting to pounce on a June bug, ready to criticize, cajole and tear said leader apart?
Her shutdown position is eminently simple and reasonable: Reopen the government, and then we can debate how best to protect the border.
Her shutdown position is eminently simple and reasonable: Reopen the government, and then we can debate how best to protect the border.
This is how the rural South works. People you’ve never met feel like neighbors, and neighbors share their stories.
This is how the rural South works. People you’ve never met feel like neighbors, and neighbors share their stories.
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The government isn’t shut down because of President Trump’s unbelievable cluelessness as a deal-maker. It’s shut down because of his many fears.
Despite advance billing that President Trump’s border wall speech would break news and contain new information, it was mostly familiar rhetoric: criminals and drugs, rapists and murderers are coming to America and the wall is the only way to stop them.
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What a revolting development this is.
From the beginning, I’ve been grateful for those who showed me a kindness or encouragement.
Once again, with President Trump in the White House, our government is “in the hands of a bad man.” Once again, Congress has a duty to act — not rashly but responsibly, dealing with concrete issues in concrete ways.
The U.S. Capitol really was “the people’s house” on Thursday. The sky may have been overcast and the temperature chilly, but still there was the feeling of dawn.
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It is now January, which is named after the Roman goddess Janus who has two heads, affording him the opportunity to look forward and backward at the same time.
For the new year, critics of President Trump should resolve not to be intimidated by the potential wrath of his vaunted political base. The only one who should cower before the Make America Great Again legions is Trump himself.
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