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Expensive round trip to priceless laughter

I was backing out of a downtown parking space when something flashed on my dashboard. The mileage calculator changed to a wrench. OMG. What’s wrong? This is not good. It was late Tuesday, and I was leaving for Dayton Thursday morning. I was heading for the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop – a professional, fun, and stimulating conference. I couldn’t wait. And now this? It was almost 5 p.m., so I drove directly to my mechanics. Rick and Mark have kept me safely on the road for more than 15 years. On my way to their shop, I glanced up at the oil sticker on the windshield. ...

SAVE Act takes aim at making it tougher to vote

You may have heard about a new voter registration act called the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act. What is it, what would it change, and what evidence do we have that change is needed? In Pennsylvania, there are currently three requirements to register to vote. You must be a United States citizen, at least 18 years old, and a resident of Pennsylvania and the election district in which you want to vote. If your address or name changes, or if you wish to change your party, you can update your registration by mail or in person. You must show ID the first time ...

Opposition to Iran war forgets history

Lately I have been hearing a lot about the high gas prices and the majority of the complaining is coming from the left side of the aisle. With that said, everyone should have been complaining all along ever since the President Barack Obama era when it really started to rise and no thanks to the former Gov. Tom Corbett who put the worthless gas tax on all of Pennsylvania. I have heard people say “gas in Warren is the highest under the (President Donald) Trump administration.” “It’s because of Trump’s war.” “It’s never been over $4 a gallon in Warren.” So here is a ...

Words sometimes do speak louder than actions

It seems that there are many so-called leaders in this country who want the democracy we have upheld for nearly 250 years dismantled; The Socialist-Dems are pushing to defund I.C.E., and again the American citizen is held hostage. They have no leaders, only ringleaders who call the shots against what is best for the majority of the country. It’s tough to straighten something out (border) that has been grossly mishandled and then left for someone else to fix. I.C.E. is doing the cleanup that should never have been necessary in the first place, except for Biden’s missteps. Dems are ...

Most of the occupied regions in our world are stolen land

At the 2026 Grammy Awards, the very dour Billie Eilish shamed Americans for living on stolen land. What a wonderful way to signal her humanitarian virtue. Then reality struck: Somebody noted that Eilish’s multi-million dollar mansion sits on the same stolen land as the mansions of all those Woke elitists who applauded her mindless proclamation. Oops! But the Woke elitists are not giving the stolen land back, in spite of their self-righteous virtue signaling. They did not bring it up at the Oscars! But Woke Leftists are not the only ones spouting the stolen land narrative. The ...

Forgetting everything? Well, join the club

My mother had a saying that I heard all too often during my childhood: “You’d forget your head if it wasn’t attached.” Sadly, she was right. I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of my whole life looking for what I have lost, misplaced, or simply forgotten. No, it’s not just ordinary car keys or reading glasses. Or please, God, my cell phone. I was a latchkey kid who couldn’t hang onto house keys. I lost keys at a rate that made the hardware store man shake his head. I was a regular customer at age 8. And mittens? Snow hats? Library books? I forgot them all, the second ...