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Deviled Eggs
The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that embryos are children. If you destroy a human embryo, you’ve murdered a child.
Now the Alabama governor has signed a bill into law protecting In Vitro Fertilization—or IVF—...
HavingREELFun
This week I experienced some diehards, no matter how cold it was in the morning they were on the water at daylight.
The report I got this week was from Jackson Butt, 4th generation native...
American Insights
The Lessons of The Federalist
On Saturday, October 27, 1787, the first of eighty-five essays under the pseudonym “Publius” appeared in the New York Independent Journal. Written by New Yorker Alexander Hamilton, the purpose of...
The Dirt on Nicky
Spring starts way next week, but things have already sprung. Mild weather in February stimulated blooms in the plant world a month early this year – yet one more reminder that weather is a...
Hall Closets
While pursuing a journalism degree from the University of Arkansas in the early 1990s, I was bitten hard by the golf bug. Thankfully, Paradise Valley Athletic Club offered a student membership for the low,...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week March 13 – 19, 2024
Spring, New Zodiacal Year & International Astrology Day
This is our last week of both Pisces and the winter season (N. latitudes)! On Tuesday, March 19, the sun, poised at the equator, enters Aries. Spring...
American Insights
The Tragedy of B. F. Randolph
On Wednesday, January 15, 1868, Benjamin Franklin Randolph opened the second day of the South Carolina Constitutional Convention with a prayer. Brief but moving, Randolph exhorted God to “fill...
The Coffee Table
Vocabulary Diet
My son and I swap notes about things we’ve appreciated on Netflix. I’d rather not waste my time sampling undesirable shows, so I lean on him for advice. He knows my tolerance level for “gunk”...
Hall Closets
Over the weekend Caitlin Clark eclipsed one of college basketball’s most hallowed and time-tested numbers – 3667 – the NCAA record for most career points scored, set by Pistol Pete Maravich more than 50...
The Dirt on Nicky
Nettles are our friends
Word has it our forebears began domesticating plants for consumption about 10,000 years ago, and I’m glad they did. Thank you, Aunt Mabel and Uncle Abdul. They started with grassy things...