Author of A Time To Kill
Ohio Gov. DeWine calls himself “much more skeptical” on the matter of the death penalty than he had been when he voted in favor of it. He gives one criterion – deterrence of crime – as the basis of his support of it. And as this deterrence principle has become doubtful – in his mind […]
A reply to a Washington Post article of Nov. 8, 2018 – Original article can be found here: https://www.columbiamissourian.com/opinion/guest_commentaries/editorial-signs-of-returning-to-a-healthy-democracy/article_7c3a686e-e372-11e8-9292-339703993983.html “Signs of Returning to a Healthy Democracy,” from the left-wing Washington Post was featured in the Wilmington News Journal on 13 November. It heralds the return of the House to the Dems rattling off complaints about […]
30 Oct., 2018 “Where have all the children gone?” So pondered Randy Riley (WNJ, 29 Oct., 2018). Randy Riley wants us to “Vote yes on the Children Services Levy.” Hmm. Is there another way to take care of these children other than raising taxes? Take them out of pagan homes and let them be reared […]
Freedom! Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins can bake their own cake and have their own blasphemous (sodomitic) wedding? That, in itself, given our historic Christian jurisprudence, would be some wild liberty gone perverse in the Land of the Free! But that wasn’t even the issue. It was much worse. This was the legal issue: may […]
4 June, 2018 (. . . whatever the hell that means.) On the front page of my local paper (Wilmington News Journal, March, 15, 2018) is an article titled “Remembering the Victims” featuring local high school students with a sign marked, “WHS for Positivity.” So, as the popular expression goes, I would ask, “What does […]
27 March, 2018 Anno Domini You only live once (on this planet)! – as far as we know – so why not live the way you choose? Why deny someone his choice for opioids? Why campaign against this sacred right? Sounds stupid, but it is not irrational. I don’t understand how a secular society thinks […]
To the Wilmington News Journal Wilmington, Ohio Re: (1 April, 2017) 3 April, 2017 Haters and Losers I think it was the curious title which drew my attention to the editorial: “Anger and Cowardice Fester Hate” (Wilmington News Journal, 1 April, 2017). I am not sure of his meaning, but I infer from the rest […]
http://www.wnewsj.com/news/44224/celebrating-diversity-in-support-of-lgbt-community-in-clinton-county 12 June, 2017 Commentary Celebrate diversity! Yeah! Its great to be perverse! (I mean diverse. Yeah!) L-G-B-T-Q-B-M-O-U-S-E! . . . “Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse forever let us hold our banner high!” Get the beat there, you folks who watched that weekly show long ago. You gotta hold that second “B” for a few counts. […]
Posted on 31 March, 2017 (Amended on 30 May 2017) 4 March, 2011 Wrestling season comes to a close. My last high school wrestler has finished his course. Both my sons have gotten from the sport what I had hoped they would get. The sport is a wonderful means of character development. Mack Remington, writing […]
22 Feb., 2017 As reported by Neil Snarr in the Journal (21 Feb., 2017) there was in Wilmington an anti-slavery newspaper published from 1851-1855, The Herald of Freedom, edited one John W. Chaffin. I was delighted to read about it. To the glory of Biblical truths and justice and to the credit of these Christian […]