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Rand and his ever-changing stands

鈥淚 have a message, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We have come to take our country back.鈥漇en. Randal Howard "Rand" Paul, Republican candidate for presidentKentucky鈥檚 junior U.S. Senator wants to 鈥渢ake our country back.鈥漅epublicans are always wanting to ...

Local woman eluded grip of Holocaust enforcer

The news item 鈥 the story of a death, actually 鈥 caused me to shiver.Oh, not right away. I had never heard of Alois Brunner 鈥 dead in Damascus, Syria, probably as long as four years ago.But then I read further, and Brunner鈥檚 story made my skin crawl. It hit close to home.The story was ...

Gov. Pence loses battle of words

Words matter.Sometimes the omission of words matter even more.The state of Indiana now has an Ommisioner-in-chief in Gov. Mike Pence.Two Sundays ago, Pence refused to directly answer questions about Indiana鈥檚 brand new 鈥淩eligious Freedom and Restoration Act.鈥漈hey only required yes or no ...

Cruz candidacy sure to go nowhere

Ted Cruz, to nobody鈥檚 surprise, is running for president.He won鈥檛 win. He probably won鈥檛 get nominated either.But he鈥檒l manage to tick off lots of people along the way.That seems to be the perpetually-grandstanding, first term Texas senator鈥檚 most non-endearing trait.He鈥檚 a highly ...

Video replays should be banned from baseball

Baseball is an imperfect game, played and managed by imperfect people, all of whom live in an imperfect world. Let football pursue the illusion of perfection. It鈥檚 not for baseball.Despite recent pronouncements by new baseball commissioner Rob Manfred to the contrary, the fact is baseball鈥檚 ...

Art imitating life, iImitating art

鈥淚 killed them all, of course鈥滱lleged murderer Robert Durst, during the HBO documentary The JinxBack in the mid-1980鈥檚, during my time anchoring the syndicated show "Entertainment Tonight,'' the program鈥檚 executive producer, Jack Reilly, hit me with a bombshell.鈥淎l, I don鈥檛 know ...