With our long international nightmare over for now and before the next bout (more on that later) here are some good ways to enjoy what is left of summer.
1.  Go see Bob Dylan.  Bob is on a summer tour of minor league baseball parks along with John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson.  We were lucky enough [...]

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As you know Barack  Obama is going to take away our guns.  Or at least your guns since I don’t have one.   However maybe I should get a gun or a whole arsenal because it does seem to be the THE thing to do these days and I sure don’t like it when I am [...]

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America loves a good bogeyman. Or should I say America always needs a good bogeyman or a gaggle of them. When we run out of real ones we just invent new ones or keep riding an old one until the horse drops dead or is hung, like Saddam Hussein.
Sometimes we just lose interest [...]

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There are few things in this world more important to me than the President of the United States coming to my alma mater. Over the years, as a reporter, I covered Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Regan (he loved the place) and both Bushes. I also covered LBJ and Bill Cinton when they [...]

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To say the least I am shocked!  Gay marriage has been legalized just two states away from my home in Indiana.  Also in Vermont but those people are so nuts they have a senator who dares to be something called an independent.  But Iowa?  How could Iowa do this?  Wait, I think I read something [...]

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The news this week that Philadelphia Phillies announcer Harry Kalas died took me back to my childhood even if he wasn’t a part of those years.
Harry was a throwback.  He was as much a part of the Phillies as any player and he was as famous in Philadelphia as the Liberty Bell.  That just does [...]

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It has been a long time since Notre Dame ruled the world of college football. The last national championship was in 1988 which means there are students enrolled at Notre Dame who were not born the last time the Irish ruled the roost. You could even make the argument that recently Notre Dame [...]

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I wonder how many invitations President Obama has received to be a college commencement speaker this year. At the very least I would guess several dozen, probably more than the number of baseball teams that would like to have him throw out the first pitch on opening day. So how many do you [...]

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1.  How is it that the Obama Administration can open up stem cell research and a religious war has not broken out in this country.  Could it be with the Bushies out of power there is no one around to stoke the inevitable bonfire that would have occurred during those eight years.  Those of you [...]

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When I was in Catholic grade school in Pittsburgh the Bishop would make an annual visit to our classroom. One of the things he always asked was “what do you want to be when your grow up?” Since this was the 1950’s and we were catholic he only asked this of the boys [...]

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