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Jeffrey Epstein was a wealthy financier accused of horrific crimes involving the sexual exploitation of minors. His legal troubles became public in Florida in the mid-2000s. In 2008, he entered into a controversial non-prosecution agreement, pleaded guilty to state charges involving a minor, and avoided federal prosecution at
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I hope as this blog is posted, it becomes irrelevant. I pray in the time this is written, she is found. I can’t imagine… I can’t imagine what it would be like to have your 84 year old mother missing, to have no idea where she is, to
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“Everything’s a conversation,” meaning, we can talk about it. Hang around me long enough, you’re bound to hear said statement. There is nothing we can’t talk about. That doesn’t mean the exchange will be easy nor simple nor even all that pleasant. What it does mean,
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Here we are once more with one of the best things that unites us. With a record-breaking 213.1 million U.S. adults expected to tune into Super Bowl LX at some point, today’s game has our attention. Roughly 121.1 million of us plan to attend or
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I haven’t always had words for what I think. Surprising, perhaps, for this long time current events blogger. But I try not to just react because everyone’s reacting. I try to say what I mean and mean what I say and communicate with authenticity. I don’t want
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How sad I was recently to read the public post from former Nebraskan Senator and President of the University of Florida, Ben Sasse, who announced the following: “Friends, This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to
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Oh, friends… there is a heaviness so many of us share. What’s happened in Minnesota has been awful. People have been killed. Trust in law enforcement has eroded. Churches are being targeted. Fear is rampant. Anger is rampant. Temperatures are rising even in the cold. This is not good
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I’m not quite sure how to wisely deal with all the expectations around silence — who should speak, when they should speak, and how loudly they should do it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
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Sometimes I wonder if we just become softies as we age. Okay, I’ll speak for myself. Sometimes I wonder if I’m becoming a softie because my edge is wearing off. Things that never made me cry before can now open the floodgates. Things that used to rattle me
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I’m not one who has ever had a lot of pet peeves in life. I’m just not that easily irked. But if I had to come up with something that I find mildly more irritating than perhaps others do, it would be the number of times after a
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It certainly has been a lively news cycle. In fact, the word “lively” simply doesn’t do it justice. There’s been seemingly a ton of significant activities and events. For example… … the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro… … the ICE shooting in Minneapolis… … the crackdown by the Iranian government
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Dusk was setting in on my Wednesday late afternoon drive. It’s a path I take multiple times weekly, near to my home. I take backroads behind some local suburban businesses to pick up my son from work, roads with a speed limit of no more than 30 m.p.