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Grateful for Fairmont KC To the editor: The Fairmont Knights of Columbus sponsored a fundraiser breakfast last Sunday with the proceeds of the event going to benefit the Martin County Historical Society.  I would like to compliment that organization on the effort they put forth, the pleasant, friendly, and professional manner of all involved from those collecting payment for the breakfast to the cooks, servers, and the individuals cleaning tables.  It was a very pleasant and enjoyable time with a very good breakfast and the opportunity to visit with the many that attended.  The ...

The coming revival of America

Columns

I detest him and everything he does or says. Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups. But it's possible that someday we'll look back on this horrendous era and say we needed Trump. We needed to see how horrible it could get before America was ...

How Race, Politics and Sports Intersect

Columns

Toward the end of the spring semester, I sent a final email to students in my Sports Icons class at Ohio State University's Lima campus regarding the NAACP's proposed boycott urging Black football players to avoid attending Power 4 conference schools in Southern states that have redrawn their ...

How to kill the Supreme Court in one easy step

Columns

In 2016, the conservative writer Mike Anton made a galvanizing case for Donald Trump in his famous "Flight 93" essay, arguing that the stakes in the contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were existential. His contention that a Clinton win would cement Democratic electoral ...

Sound judgement makes good decisions

Columns

Making decisions and choices are something we must do every day. Decisions have consequences. How they are made, and what they are based on, can determine if they end up being good or bad decisions. What we decide will follow how we size-up, understand, or judge a situation. Hopefully, that judgment is based on gathering enough information, reviewing that information, checking each option and its value, coming to a conclusion, and finally making the decision. Hopefully we have also tried to anticipate or predict the outcome of acting on that decision. A correct decision depends on ...

Which Party Will Recover First From Its Current Self-Harm?

Columns

Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections. Back in the 1850s, as historian Roy Franklin Nichols notes, there was an election in all but one or two of ...