Category: columns

Third-world thugs, autocrats, theocrats, bureaucrats and -crats of all kinds gather this week in New York City for the start of the United Nation’s General Assembly. I think it is called the “General…

Wow, that was a little scary. I watched an NFL play on TV and it was followed almost immediately by verbal incredulation in 32 NFL cities. Then it seemed to quickly spread to the entire American foot…

Do you have an iPhone, iPad, GPS, or some other device includes a mapping program to help you get form point A to point B? How about that trip in which you used a program like MapQuest to provide dir…

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Sunday, 7:58 p.m. This is Chet. I would like…

President Obama says the most important lesson he learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside. Too bad he didn't learn a more important one that his superficial, artificial support of…

W.H. Rhodes will be having its annual fall festival on Oct. 5. This is a night for our students and families, as well as the community to come together and enjoy and evening together. Each class is r…

Most of the time, as we look at today’s children and their conduct, we seldom tip our hats to their good deeds. Last week, three students at Pace High School … Austin Hardcastle, Jayson Carter, and T…

Ref: NBC’s Brian Williams, 9-25-12. I have heard so many candidates say “I think…” during their forum talks. Romney is no different. “You know….I think….” (on states and the people financing educatio…

Here's a question: If there's a disaster, a war, a severe drought or some other calamity that restricts future supplies of a commodity — such as oil, coffee or corn — what is the intelligent thing …

After the last letter I wrote, printed on Sept. 15, I have received some shocking, but interesting information. First, the amount I stated of $210,000 spent so far and not one brick laid on the new c…