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“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain

When I was 18 years old, a proud new graduate of Port St. Joe High School, I got a job at the …

To the class of 2022, and to parents and friends, of all colors, shapes and sizes, whether you have a concealed weapons permit or not, I thank you for indulging me on this auspicious occasion.

My …

I have no idea when you get old enough to “know something.” I was about five when I fell on the gravel running down what was then called the Como Road. I slid headfirst past six rows of cotton, two water troughs and a rusted out Arcade hay rake. It hurt like you couldn’t believe!…

Now 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse has been found not guilty for fatally shooting two men and wounding a third. He and a friend traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin to protect local business owners and provide medical aid after two nights of businesses being looted and set on fire there. Rittenhouse, who was trained in emergency care, brought…

Hi Y’all,  Lanark Village Golf Club had its first meeting of the season. Thank you for those who did come. The board ask those attending to be on the nominating committee to see if any member is interested in the positions that are available (which is all of them). We do have two members who…

The Tokyo Summer Olympic Games began, as the Olympics always do, with the Parade of Nations – many of which we have yet to invade. By marching in those loud outfits, however, their people just seem to be asking for it. It troubles the “woke” Left that we are running out of things to call…

I have stated over the years that the Clinton Family Foundation was nothing more than a political operation disguised as a charity. It existed to funnel money to the Clintons and to advance their brand. Every money-moving operation must have accomplices and other “muscle” to make the criminal enterprise hum. One of the latest muscle-heads,…

Beware of actors with guns. The first to realize this, too late, was President Abraham Lincoln. According to the Los Angeles Times, “Hours before actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of ‘Rust’ with a prop gun, a half-dozen camera crew workers walked off the set to protest working conditions….

Hi Y’all, Hope that your Halloween was fun! The Lanark Village Boat Club had a members appreciation Octoberfest on Saturday. The food and fun were wonderful and Teresa and George Bookwalter and the other volunteers worked really hard to make it nice. It was disappointing to have such a small attendance. It was a beautiful…

In speeches at Stanford University in the mid-1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr coined the term “Two Americas.” He described the then starkly different lives and opportunities of social classes in America. Like many cool things, that term was stolen from an African American and co-opted by white liberal Democrats. It was used as divisive…