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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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A coming U.S. firestorm? Very possible …

by Wayne Engle • May 16, 2017 • 3 Comments

Wanted: Someone who can run this country efficiently, democratically, who can inspire great loyalty from his or her supporters, while also receiving grudging respect from the other side, and who, in the final result, can bring us together in the…

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The Holy Fire: Is it a divine signal to believers?

by Wayne Engle • April 13, 2017 • 1 Comment

“The Holy Fire” is believed by Orthodox Christians to be an annual miracle performed by God on the eve of Easter, the celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection — and is totally unknown to most Western Christians. And it’s condemned as…

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Remembering the Rascals — and Pete

by Wayne Engle • March 13, 2017 • 4 Comments

Do you remember the Little Rascals? If you grew up in the 1950s, as I did, you probably do. They were some of the favorite TV entertainment for us Baby Boomers of the Eisenhower years. The Hal Roach Studio had…

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Assert your authority, President Trump!

by Wayne Engle • February 12, 2017 • 2 Comments

“John Marshall has given his decision. Now let him enforce it.” — That was President Andrew Jackson speaking, when the U.S. Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Marshall, ruled that he could not put the so-called “Trail of Tears”…

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‘Hatred’ can be directed many ways

by Wayne Engle • January 19, 2017 • 2 Comments

At noon Friday, Jan. 20, Donald J. Trump took the oath as the 45th president of the United States. Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters were in Washington, D.C., for the festivities — inaugural parade, new president’s speech, the inaugural…

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A Christmas NamVet reunion

by Wayne Engle • December 18, 2016 • 4 Comments

You Numbah One! You Numbah Ten! Choi Oi! White Mice … Victor Charlie … You buy me Saigon tea? … The “NamVet” words he’d heard every day while he was serving in the Vietnam War, 50 years before, ran randomly…

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Trump presidency will be a different one

by Wayne Engle • November 22, 2016 • 2 Comments

Well, our raucous presidential election, the most divisive since Hector was a pup, is over. Donald Trump has won, and will be the 45th president of the United States. Beyond that, I’ve had some random thoughts about all this. All…

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Election day, don’t make a big mistake

by Wayne Engle • November 7, 2016 • 4 Comments

OK, folks: It’s the bottom of the ninth; score tied; home team’s best slugger facing the visitors’ star pitcher. The fat lady’s putting on her girdle, getting ready to sing. It’s Christmas Eve, with visions of sugar plums dancing in…

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The conspiracy to ‘Dump Trump’

by Wayne Engle • October 8, 2016 • 4 Comments

So Donald Trump 11 years ago made a few unsavory remarks about women to a guy named Bush who he thought was the only one who could hear him. And — SOMEHOW — there just happened to be an “open…

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Kaepernick the ass, and a new anthem

by Wayne Engle • September 30, 2016 • 2 Comments

This column is about a childish, spoiled football player who doesn’t know how wonderful he’s got it; and about the song that has inspired his nonsensical raving and disrespect of a national symbol. Colin Kaepernick, did you feel that you…

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The ‘highest office’? Hillary’s not up to it

by Wayne Engle • September 15, 2016 • 1 Comment

Hackin’ Hillary (cough, cough!) did a nose dive into her limousine during the 9/11 memorial services in New York City Sunday. “Over-heated,” her minions told the press. Yeah, those 75-degree, 39 percent humidity days are murder, aren’t they? Then, after…

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Journeying toward Orthodoxy …

by Wayne Engle • August 31, 2016 • 4 Comments

“Orthodox? Is that Jewish?” That’s the reply I’ve gotten, several times, from friends I’ve told that I’d like to convert to the Eastern Orthodox Church. And the question was usually accompanied by a puzzled frown that told me the friend…

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Presidential race — then, possibly, revolution?

by Wayne Engle • August 15, 2016 • 2 Comments

Many, many years from now, when our grandchildren have grandchildren of their own and people my age have been pushing up daisies for a long time, Americans will still be talking about this insane, unlike any before or since, presidential…

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