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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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Black Americans having another ‘pity party’

by Wayne Engle • July 15, 2016 • 5 Comments

“You White people don’t understand what it’s like to be black in America!” Two years after Ferguson, a longer time after Trayvon Martin, the shooting deaths of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, followed by the massacre of five…

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BREXIT may signal a coming revolution for America, too

by Wayne Engle • June 30, 2016 • 2 Comments

Maybe 100 years from now they’ll be talking about June 23 as the British people’s “Fourth of July.” Because in a referendum on that date, the people of the UK voted that their answer to “EU” is “pee-u,” and they…

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‘The Cute One’? How about ‘The Musical Genius’?

by Wayne Engle • June 15, 2016 • 2 Comments

Paul McCartney: The Life, by Philip Norman — Little, Brown and Company. 2016 “The Cute One”? That’s how Philip Norman saw the Beatles’ Paul McCartney for many years. John Lennon was the brilliant, witty, edgy musical genius who was “three…

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Transgenders and restrooms: Are they kidding?!

by Wayne Engle • May 15, 2016 • 3 Comments

The Mulatto Messiah, drunk with power over the numerous presidential edicts he’s issued which the spineless Republican-led Congress has done absolutely nothing about, has now jumped with both feet into the current brouhaha about transgendered people — whatever THAT means…

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Jacob and Marge: A match made ‘on the ground’

by Wayne Engle • April 15, 2016 • 2 Comments

Jacob Schutte, a lonely bachelor farmer in the early 1900s, goes each Sunday to a different church to partake of the “dinner on the ground” offered to any with the 25 cents it costs to eat. On this particular Sunday,…

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Jacob Schutte’s life was humdrum — until a Sunday surprise

by Wayne Engle • March 31, 2016 • 2 Comments

This short story is based on my memories of an uncle of mine; on a reminiscence by my dad about his growing-up years, just at the time this story takes place; and on my memories of my own life. But…

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‘Stop Trump’? Don’t think it’s gonna happen

by Wayne Engle • March 15, 2016 • 10 Comments

OK, national GOP leaders: Everyone got their pistol loaded and ready? Good! Now, everybody aim their weapons down toward the floor. One, two, three, FIRE! BOOM! That exercise is called, “Shooting yourself in the foot.” And that’s just what the…

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‘Poor Richard’ was a millionaire in wisdom

by Wayne Engle • February 29, 2016 • 4 Comments

Benjamin Franklin, one of our most well-beloved Founding Fathers, never served as president of the United States. He was born too early (1706) so that by the time the first president (George Washington) was elected, Franklin was a frail 83…

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Race hustlers scare Disney on ‘Song of the South’

by Wayne Engle • February 15, 2016 • 1 Comment

The title of the movie was almost poetic: “Song of the South.” The actors were charming and believable — especially James Baskett as Uncle Remus, who became one of the best-known characters in American literature, partly via the 1946 Disney…

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