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Huge mistake, 400 years ago

by Wayne Engle • August 20, 2019 • 1 Comment

This is a big, important anniversary for the United States of America, my friends. Bet you don’t know what it is, either. OK, here we go: On this day, August 20, 1619 — 400 years ago today — the first…

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Madison, back in the day …

by Wayne Engle • August 7, 2019 • 6 Comments

Downtown Madison, Indiana — what a history it has! It goes back to 1809, when a man named John Paul founded this town on the banks of the Ohio River, in the southeast corner of what was then the Indiana…

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Hoosiers in Hollywood …

by Wayne Engle • June 25, 2019 • 1 Comment

Indiana is an odd state. South Bend is in the north; North Vernon is in the south; and French Lick doesn’t mean what you think it does! Now that I’ve got your attention, I’ll add that yes, in some ways,…

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Old Corporal’s novel: It’s a-comin’!

by Wayne Engle • May 27, 2019 • 1 Comment

“You better start trying to get that book published, Wayne. You know, you’re not getting any younger!” Yeah, thanks a bunch, friends. Don’t remind me. I don’t even remember how long ago it was that I started writing this novel…

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A pox on all bans and censorship!

by Wayne Engle • April 7, 2019 • 2 Comments

CENSORSHIP! BANS! Words you can’t say in polite society! I HATE all that crap — and I always have. As a retired newspaper reporter, I always found secrecy about the facts very annoying. As a child, I was highly annoyed…

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Madison Courier, we still need you!

by Wayne Engle • January 24, 2019 • 1 Comment

The Madison Courier has been here with us in southeastern Indiana for 182 years. Supposedly, it has never missed an edition. But, has it started to go down for the third time? Newspapers, like humans, often have lifespans. They’re born,…

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Christmas is the greatest holiday!

by Wayne Engle • December 9, 2018 • 1 Comment

CHRISTMAS! It’s coming, folks! As if you didn’t know that, of course. No holiday in world history has been so publicized, so widely observed, so full of divine meaning, warmth and a kindness that gushes out of people at the Yuletide…

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Tony Joe, we’ll miss you so …

by Wayne Engle • October 31, 2018 • 5 Comments

Tony Joe White, the “Swamp Fox,” and one of the most unique musicians in American history, died quietly and unexpectedly last Wednesday, at his home in Tennessee, apparently with family members present. I think it’s the way he would have…

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GOP must stand up to ‘clever, slick’ Dems

by Wayne Engle • September 30, 2018 • 0 Comments

So the conniving, totally unprincipled Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have finally gotten what they’ve been saying they wanted: A seventh FBI investigation into Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s background to see if somehow, they don’t care how, some piece of…

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The Madison, Indiana of my youth

by Wayne Engle • August 5, 2018 • 8 Comments

“Hey, Wayne, like I told you last year, you know so much about the history of Madison and people who lived here, and if you don’t write it all down on your website, one of these days you’ll be gone,…

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Hey, leftist liberals: Better watch your backs!

by Wayne Engle • June 24, 2018 • 1 Comment

OK, all you liberals, here we go, one, two, three: “WAAAAAH! BOOOHOOO! Poor little immigrant children! That nasty old monster Donald Trump is separating them from their parents! Poor little things! They’re being starved, beaten, molested, and the Republicans don’t…

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‘The World Turned Upside Down’

by Wayne Engle • June 14, 2018 • 1 Comment

There are more ways to kill a cat than choking it on buttermilk. Ever hear that old saying? What it means is, “If one thing hasn’t worked, for 65 years, then let’s try something else.” Or words to that effect.…

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Here’s how it all started, folks …

by Wayne Engle • May 6, 2018 • 4 Comments

Well, hello there! It’s been a long, long time … How’m I doin’? Well, I guess I’m doin’ fine … In case any of my loyal readers had wondered, no, Wayne Engle, aka Old Corporal, hasn’t died, or run out…

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Here’s our Hoosier Hysteria!

by Wayne Engle • February 12, 2018 • 3 Comments

Basketball was born in Massachusetts. But it grew up in Indiana. The fit was better here. Dr. James Naismith invented the roundball game in 1891, to give students at the Massachusetts college where he taught an indoor sport to play…

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Jody and the “Critters’ Christmas”

by Wayne Engle • December 18, 2017 • 1 Comment

Jody Schneider fell in love twice — and just one week before Christmas. The 12-year-old New York City boy had always felt very close to animals (spiritually), and loved to be around them (although he didn’t get to be very…

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Will, Adi, Macca: Yes, he did; No, he didn’t; No, he isn’t.

by Wayne Engle • November 30, 2017 • 3 Comments

Myths about famous people have made it ’round the world ever since there was enough communication for myths TO travel. “Mohammed was a pedophile; and so was Joseph Smith.” “Everything great in American music was originated by brilliantly talented black…

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Guns are in our American history — and our DNA

by Wayne Engle • October 31, 2017 • 1 Comment

“Bang bang! You’re dead!” If you heard or said those words, occasionally or often, when you were growing up, I’d practically guarantee you’re an American. Why? Because guns — the “bang bang” producer — are in our national DNA. And…

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The Mormons don’t ‘sweat the small stuff’

by Wayne Engle • September 30, 2017 • 1 Comment

” ‘Hatred’? Didn’t he just write one about that a couple of months ago?” I can just hear my readers asking themselves that now. And the answer is, “Yes, I did.” But I felt the need to follow it up,…

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The Left is heading for a very nasty fall

by Wayne Engle • August 31, 2017 • 1 Comment

What has happened to our once-great country, fellow Americans? Where did we go wrong? How did we get so far off the track that our land now seems to be run by millions of malcontents who never tire of protesting,…

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Hustle right into that Hall, Charlie!

by Wayne Engle • August 15, 2017 • 1 Comment

Nobody ever accused Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds of being a fabulously athletic baseball player. He was of only average height, stocky in build, a good enough runner but nothing like those (mostly black) players who go from first…

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Big families: Hey, folks, we need MORE of them!

by Wayne Engle • July 20, 2017 • 2 Comments

Everybody should have at least one sister or brother. There. That’s the opinion of a man who grew up as an only child, so I’ve got the scars to prove the truth of what I just said. After all, the…

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‘Equality’? It’s just another liberal lie

by Wayne Engle • June 18, 2017 • 1 Comment

“We hold these truths to be self evident; that all men are created equal …” Thus spake Thomas Jefferson, probably the most brilliant of our Founding Fathers, in his preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Of course, in the next…

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