VOICES

COVID POLITICS - I live near Middlefield Ohio, the center of the fourth largest Amish settlement in America.

COMMENTARY - This is the one story that I have not wanted to write.

LGBTQ NATION - Religious right organizations and evangelical leaders are bragging that they are responsible for Republican Glenn Youngkin’s election in this week’s Virginia gubernatorial race.

THE COURT - Ralph Waldo Emerson once told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own integrity: “The louder he talked of his honor,” Emerson wrote: “the faster we counted our spoons.”

A POV - I waited almost three months for some acknowledgement, but it never came. Not a bottle of champagne. Not a congratulatory note. Not an email of acknowledgement. Not one media request.

ANALYSIS - Populism was the big winner in the Virginia election yesterday, after Terry McCauliffe ran on his past as a Bill Clinton Democrat and Glen Youngkin ran as a rightwing populist.

BORDER WATCH - To: Baja California Gov.-elect Marina del Pilar Ávila and California Gov. Gavin Newsom

VOICES - Stop with the telemarketing calls, already. They are a plague on our society - invasive, abusive, and waking people who need their sleep. Annoying to the point of affecting many people’s health. 

VOICES - The CalTrans response on Nov. 1st to remove the homeless encampment on the San Fernando Mission Blvd. southbound 405 freeway on-ramp left a lot of trash behind.

ANOTHER VOICE - In a recent article, dated November 1, 2021 "Talk About Teetering Edge of a Regime", your reporter stated that an event for Turning Point USA was held at Northwest Nazarene University, which in fact, it was not.

GENDER POLITICS - The U.S. issued its first passport with an “X” gender marker this week, which LGBTQ advocates hailed as a historic moment for the legal recognition of non-binary gender identities.

HISTORY REPEATS - When Richard Nixon died, those of us on the antiwar side of the barricades during his misbegotten presidency were driven to new lows of cynical despair by the image-washing, sometimes from mainstream media, but most often from other politicians who seemed to want to set an extremely low bar for presidential legacies.