
Gary Horton | Thoughtfulness of the Thought That Counts
Wow! Dec. 14. Only 10 more shopping days to go! This will be my 66th Christmas. About the 58th I can still remember anything about… and most of that, I

Wow! Dec. 14. Only 10 more shopping days to go! This will be my 66th Christmas. About the 58th I can still remember anything about… and most of that, I

Long ago (Jan. 29) I called out amateurs who believe their own (faulty, incomplete, speculative) medical advice to be superior to professional consensus. Now another voice (Phil Neiman, Dec. 8)

When our founding fathers embarked on “the great American experiment,” the question was if a population could resist submitting to autocratic rule. At that time, with rare historical exceptions,

I am a proud Democrat. I vote Democrat, give money to the Democrats, walk precincts for Democrats. I also worked 17 years in Palmdale for a large aerospace firm (chew

I can remember back in 1994 when, for the first time, a family asked the question, “Will you be holding services on Christmas since it falls on a Sunday?” When I

Millions of otherwise sane people were vexed by Donald Trump enough to vote for a corrupt, creepy, incompetent alternative who, in just one month, asked to speak to a dead

So let me get this right. If I am a liberal, after this last election, I believe that people of all ages can’t make a decision whether to vape or

During the Roman Inquisition in the 1600s, Copernicus and then Galileo were found to be “foolish and absurd in philosophy” and “vehemently suspect of heresy,” respectively, for espousing theories that,

I didn’t know Mayleigh Beaver. But I think of her every time I drive to work. And every time I drive home. There’s a spot on that drive. It’s an

Dear me how time flies and I think it was eight years ago. My daughter and I spent a couple of Christmas weeks by ourselves at our friend’s tony beach

I want to vote. Which side should I vote for? When I sit to compare what Republicans and Democrats “seem” to stand for (aside from the power/control thing) I get

The Republican Party is assembling a team to conduct an “autopsy” of the 2022 election results, to determine how the party can win back voters who Donald Trump has lost.

I’ve mentioned in a previous column that I am the collections manager for a very large corporation and there was an “art to collecting,” which I take great pride in.

I read Thomas Otway’s letter (Dec. 4) extolling the virtues of the “COVID misinformation bill.” Because of what he is endorsing, compelled to respond. This bill is so extreme that

The first two Ukrainian settlers arrived in Canada in 1891 followed by tens of thousands until the start of World War I. Most Ukrainian immigrants of this period were identified

We have family friends living in Irpin, Ukraine. Irpin was one of the towns hardest hit by the initial Russian invasion. You’ve seen the horrifying pictures. The mom, Juliya, shares

There is a saying that “youth is wasted on the young,” but not this time, in the 2022 midterm election when the young people didn’t waste any time and came

Joseph Goebbels would be proud. Santa Clarita’s far left has its own minister of propaganda. Week after week, Thomas Oatway beats the same tired obsessive drum, really visceral hatred, of

Re: Arthur Saginian, letters, Nov. 18, “A Few Conditions for Returning.” Arthur, I will take up your points in the order in which you wrote. Since you are perfect and

The Fed is managing inflation about as well as the Centers for Disease Control managed COVID-19. Government “cures” for government-caused ailments. And yet there are people who still look to