Let’s pick up where we left off last week. May 17, 2024, marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Concurring in Missouri v. Jenkins, the school-desegregation from Kansas City, Justice Clarence Thomas in effect wrote in ...

Did you know that the average American, that’s you and I by the way, will pay $524,625 in taxes throughout our lives. Put another way, that is a third (34.7%) of our earnings based on estimated lifetime earnings of $1,494,986. That includes taxes on income, sales taxes, school taxes, payroll ...

Skydiving is the latest big adventure for 80-year-olds. Well, not for all of them, but I’ve heard more than a few rumbles about this wonderful growing insanity. Yesterday, I received an email from Barbara, an old friend who is not letting the stacked-up years affect her days. A couple of ...

Shortly after the horrific attack in Israel by the sacrilegious Hamas terrorists, I wrote an article entitled “Suffer the Little Children.” I’d like to repeat the final paragraph. Regardless of race, color or creed, babies are the same. They’re all beautiful, cuddly, given to wailing ...

I recently read an article about a 75-year-old doctor from a small town in Minnesota who was commiserating about loving his job, but that he was getting old, like his patients, and was realizing what he had always told them about aging as being “entirely and inescapably normal.” It was now ...

By The Rev. Mel McGinnis In America, since October 7th when Israel had its “9/11”, demands for cease–fire in Gaza and aid for the Gazans have turned to chants of “We are Hamas” and “Death to America.” A new epicenter for anti-semitism foments from protesters squatting on ...