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About this time of year in the world of Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge was surveying his past, present and with any luck, his future....

I walk around my neighborhood later in the evening these days, mostly so I can see the lights.There are some impressive houses just a...

We have been told that we are divided as a nation. Some even say that we are fractured beyond repair. But judging from I...

Darnell Collins doesn’t remember ever seeing a Santa Claus that looked like him when he was growing up.That just didn’t seem right to Collins,...

Like a lot of you, I have tried certain careers that just didn’t work out. As a young boy my dream was to be...

Not too long ago, I was having a conversation with a friend, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Coordination, also the...

Yesterday I bought a Christmas tree at the hardware store. I thought it was a good day to do it both because I’d heard...

When our 2-year-old dog sits still, he’s often mistaken for an oversized stuffed animal.He’s a white-and-brown “Goldendoodle,” a golden retriever and poodle mix with...

Like most of you I spent Thanksgiving eating turkey, which I don’t even really care for, with my family. We have all heard it...

Consider the dark fraternity of strongmen inhabiting today’s global political stage. Under the invisible cloak of counterfeit democracy lurk the likes of Russia’s Vladimir...