To the editor: Have you ever considered what one trillion dollars might look like? It would be a stack of $100 bills that would cover a football field...end zone to end zone....to a depth of almost 8 feet high. When I graduated from High School in 1965 the Federal debt was $317 billion ...
To the editor: Re: Real story behind 14th Amendment Feb. 11 He is referencing “rulings” on specific cases that resolve that case “specifically.” It has no, repeat, no lawful enforceable extension of authority beyond that specific case, although it can be “referenced” in ...
To the editor: In an executive order on Jan. 20, President Trump declared that “the Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” My mother’s father arrived on Ellis Island ...
To the editor: All government agencies, federal, state or local are supposed to be audited each year. So how do we end up with surprises from wasteful, if not outright illegal, spending by USAID? Should we expect more disgusting results from other government organizations? Once again though, ...
“Big fish don’t get big by being dumb,” is a favorite outdoor saying of mine, but perhaps it only exists to provide those trophy fish with a bit of anthropomorphized intellect justifying my difficulty in catching them. Whether that’s a walleye heading up to the 30-inch mark, a ...
It’s amazing what one will revisit when reading a classic child’s book. While scrolling through a website, I came to a mention of a poem by Shel Silverstein entitled “The Giving Tree.” I read it many times to our children (...and to myself) in past days, and decided there was ...