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I’m a lucky American.

We don’t often talk politics in front of the grands because it’s just all too terribly depressing. For us. We’re not that concerned about them. They’re young and may live long enough to see the nation rally.

Had I been able to foretell my future back in the late 1950s and early ‘60s during my St. Charles Redwing days, there’s much that I would have had a hard time believing, not the least of which was that I would spend over 30 years teaching students who behaved a whole lot better than I ever did for the first several years of my schooling. I also would have been incredulous that school calendars would modify so drastically that the first day of a new school year would be weeks before the Tuesday after Labor Day.

As the accolades overflowed from current and former NBA players when Boston Celtics great Bill Russell passed away peacefully on July 31, one of the unique attributes of his legacy that stands out is that he never craved attention or being in the spotlight.

A majority of the farm leases for crop production in Ohio are still verbal (non-written) leases that are recognized as being “year-to-year.” In other words, the landlord or tenant can terminate the existing verbal lease each year.

Chinese President Xi Jinping recently warned the United States not to “play with fire” over Taiwan. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided to play with fire by showing up, chatting with Taiwanese leaders, offering citizens a moment of hope and giving Xi an excuse for violence.

Nineteen months ago, Donald Trump’s fixation on unproven allegations of election fraud played a major role in the Republicans’ loss of two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia and, with them, their Senate majority.

A shout-out and a standing ovation for eight Ohio members of the U.S. House, including four Ohio Republicans, who stood up to protect same-sex and interracial marriage.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will face off again for the presidency in 2024. At least that’s what political insider Dick Morris tells anyone who will listen. He’s garnishing that prediction by claiming it will be “one of the greatest political rematches of all time.”

Three weeks following the November 2020 election, a Chinese professor was caught on a YouTube video, bragging about how Beijing had systematically embedded itself within America’s core system of influence, with Wall Street elites actively promoting its interests. Also telling was his bemoaning of Donald Trump’s efforts to reverse this arrangement while gushing over the fact that Joe Biden would make things “better” again, an oxymoronic statement if there ever was one.