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Feb 26, 2021 Every time my phone rings I feel violated. Why do I feel violated you ask? I feel violated because I do not know the person who is calling me. This week I have had phone calls from all over Pennsylvania, California, Georgia, South Dakota, Florida, and Illinois to name just a few of them. I started tracking where the phone calls were coming from but gave up because there were so many of them. These “friends” do not even know who they are calling. They just have numbers in front of them to call. I even had calls from this area from people that I do not know. I knew one o...

Four times in recent decades, Congress has at least started down the presidential-impeachment path. For some, each episode has been at least substantially, if not primarily, about politics – sometimes partisan politics – not law. For example, after President Trump’s 2021 acquittal, U.S. Rep. and lead House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said, “We successfully prosecuted him in the court of public opinion and in the court of history.” Is this going to stop, or is this going to keep escalating? Enough already. The American people deserve better. Readers of this column these ...

It was cold this week, and it reminded me of the poem by Robert Service about the prospector in the Yukon who “hated the cold, but the land of gold seemed

The discussions of climate change are shifting from denial to what to do about it. The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration reports that there were 22 natural disasters each costing more than $1 billion in 2020. Costing the US in total $95 billion and taking 262 lives. Climate change is making these disasters more frequent, more damaging, and more costly. The Federal Reserve, for the first time, named climate change as a risk to U.S financial stability. In its biannual financial stability report, the Fed said banks should be more transparent about how their assets are vulnerable...

Darrell McKee To Democrats, Republicans, Independents–the citizens of the United States, the left, right, and everyone in between, please push the pause button and think!! These past few years–particularly this past year–our way of life, which is governed by the Constitution of the United States is under siege; from both the left and right wings of the political spectrum. The rhetoric, violence, civil disobedience and lawlessness seem to be out of control. From the violence in our cities, which includes rioting, the destruction of property and needless killings, to the violence which wa...