Get this: The U.S. Treasury says that America’s debt grew by another trillion dollars in 2016. If you’re like me and you find it difficult to grasp how much a trillion really is, econ4u.com, an educational project of the nonprofit Employment Policies Institute, offers a mind-blowing illustration. “Let’s say someone told you to wait for […]

Over the past eight years, there has been much public anguish over the transformation that President Obama and the liberals have tried to bring to America. Obamacare is awful, illegal immigration is out of control, the President does not support the police, we appear weak to our allies, we appear weak to our enemies, we […]

Thanks, Gary Gary Anderson’s commentary in Thursday’s paper gave readers a chance for a welcome deep breath as he reminded us of beauty in this sad time of self serving politics and the power of greed. The shallowness of so much political discourse, with its ugly need to accuse and blame and deny and win, […]

In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which argued for American independence from British rule. In 1861, Florida became the third state to secede from the Union. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. In 1917, legendary Western frontiersman and showman William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody died at his sister’s […]