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During elections, suburban women like me get quite a bit of attention from the political pundits. In suburban Santa Clarita, women make up about 50% of the population, which means

Years ago, a brilliant friend offered an observation I’ve never been able to shake: “We learn through science or we learn through suffering.”  Lessons come through traditional sources: books, art,

I do not know about you, but until very recently, I thought our country had progressed beyond a time when our citizens overtly discriminated by race. Gone are racially segregated

Have you noticed our crybaby culture where no one misses an opportunity to be offended? America just celebrated Independence Day, which should be a time to pull us together as

We should revere science because most scientists have very high ethical standards and are not afraid to recognize and amend errors in their research. The scientific method is the best

My father was 18 months old in 1918 when his 32-year-old dad died from the Spanish Flu Pandemic. Grandfather William Horton’s untimely death left our family impoverished and set us

What do you remember? I remember the wind. As a child, I would fall asleep to the wind in the leaves outside my bedroom window on warm summer nights. In

By David Hegg  It happened last week. All around me I saw camels with broken backs. They had borne the weight of incremental governmental sticks but it was finally too

The kids are naming names. I’m not. But there’s been a flurry of local social media activity the past two weeks, and it’s alarming in several different ways. And, I

Welcome to the Temple of Black Lives Matter, a new national religion. It isn’t state-sponsored, but this secular creed of identity politics is increasingly accepted and promoted by government officials,

Last weekend’s Fourth of July was spent quietly, inspecting fences and sprinkler lines, water tanks and bird baths. Didn’t see a single looter, firecracker or mouth breather. Wasn’t tarred. Wasn’t

Growing up, my mom, my brother and I watched my stepdad leave for work every day not knowing whether he would make it home. As a member of the Los

After surviving the debacle of players kneeling during the national anthem before games a few years ago, the NFL has decided to wade back into those troubled waters. They lost

Why won’t things just quiet down? Why so much ruckus? What on earth is everyone marching for, protesting for, sitting in for? Why the bitterness? Why the division?  “When will

There sure is a lot of wishful and hopeful thinking going on! I wish this pandemic would go away and hope things would return to normal.  I hope my spouse

Poncho turned 21 a few days before. He was anxious to be permitted to enter the local Mexican dance club a few blocks from home for the first time.  Poncho

By David Hegg  Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock somewhere, you’re acutely aware we are becoming an increasingly touchy society. It seems the new national sport is overreaction to

“Fix your heart, man.” No disrespect to Joey Logano, but I never thought that particular NASCAR driver would say something that would stick with me like those words have. Logano

With the unbelievable and totally bizarre events that have taken up our American landscape for much of the past month of rampant violence, looting, burning, destruction and killing, we have

For years, I would dress up in my finest Sunday-Go-To-Meeting cowboy regalia, climb atop a fine tall horse and lead our annual Fourth of July parade. I’d offer my two