My hobby is model railroading. Today, virtually all model railroad equipment is manufactured in China and is imported by American companies. Most model railroad products are produced in limited runs
We all know that a warming climate will affect our water supply. Some areas of the country are predicted to see increased flooding from hurricanes and other storms, while climate
As I write this, I unfortunately wonder where our next mass shooting will be. I wonder how many more kids and parents, journalists, police and coworkers will die in our
By David Hegg Sometimes it turns out that famous clichés are just plain wrong, or at least wrong in enough important situations to make them suspect. One with which I
By Katie Hill Congresswoman On Nov. 7, I found out that you elected me to be your member of Congress. Our team planned to go line dancing at Borderline Bar
Remember the “good old days”? It was 1998, when we had to start explaining forms of sex to our middle-schoolers because of verified White House events involving cigars and a
Dear Katie Hill, Read, with interest, a quote from you. It appeared in a recent web issue of Time Magazine and was about the move to impeach President Donald Trump.
Let’s take a break from politics and discuss what happened at the baseball trade deadline. If you are a Dodger fan, you are probably concerned about the Dodgers’ bullpen, which
Another bloody weekend. More shootings. More carnage. More pictures of grieving family members. More statements from politicians declaring “we must have immediate action.” More insanity from the press and the
Last week, responding to the Gilroy mass-murder, I wrote: “We have become slaves to an anachronistic, tortured (Second Amendment), and as slaves, we’re passive bystanders to the slaughter of our
No sooner had the U.S. Women’s Soccer team won its final match, the Democrats decided to politicize the event via their old standby bromide of “equal pay.” Personally, although originally
The Trump presidency has many sounding the alarm that Trump is a racist. Yet some conservatives are delighted that Trump is “telling the way it really is” and that “he
By Tim Whyte Signal Editor My good buddy John Boston and I go way back. Decades back. We’re both award-winning columnists, although I haven’t entered a column writing contest in
By David Hegg At the end of a long day I’m usually mentally exhausted and can be found lounging on our family room couch with a television remote in my
Take a $10 bill out of your wallet or purse. Take a look at it. What’s it worth? “Obviously, $10, Brian,” you’re thinking. Maybe. The actual intrinsic value of any
I can picture my father at 9, an athletic, simple farm boy, sweet, shy, misplaced. He was always embarrassed to smile, though he did so perfectly. In a blink, he’s
Engaged and engaging. That’s the way I sized up Judy Penman when I met her, briefly, at a local event many years ago. And from a distance I saw that
Some 228 years ago — it might have well been 1,000 years for all the “progress” that’s since been made in weapons — our nation’s founding leaders stuck a compromise
Imagine for a moment if John F. Kennedy had spoken lovingly of the Soviet Union, advocated policies in their interest, said they were America’s moral equivalent, and openly called on
By David Hegg If you can remember all the way back to grammar school, you’ll also remember having run into some actual grammar. And while this column is really not