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I spent nearly half my life working in TV and radio newsrooms. Much of that time was spent working as a weatherman, but often I was tasked with double duty. Over the years I worked as a producer, news anchor, news reporter and news director in addition to weather responsibilities. This shows you I’m qualified to evaluate and comment about news broadcasting in America. My journalism professor at the University of Minnesota taught us as the last of a dying breed. He defined the role of a j...
There is open talk of civil war in America. The Washington Examiner last week published results of a poll showing 61 percent of Americans say the U.S. is on the verge of a civil war, and 52 percent of respondents said they’re taking steps to prepare for one. Why is this happening? Dr. John MacArthur, one of America’s most well-known pastors and an expert in biblical exposition, penned an op-ed piece for “The Daily Wire” last week in which he basically echoed what I wrote in these pages on Sept...
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg (RGB) earlier this month and President Trump’s subsequent nomination of Amy Coney Barrett (ACB) to fill her seat has set in motion a chain of events some speculate could lead to another American civil war. The level of hatred being flung at ACB before she even has a chance to field questions from concerned citizens and senators is yet another example of collectivist wrath and judgment in a “guilt by association” context. ACB isn’t Catholic i...
The ideological war we’re witnessing in America is as old as civilization. We’ve see the pattern played out over and over throughout history. Prosperous and powerful nations become corrupt and detached from principled moorings. The people become complacent and restless. The disaffected rebel and rise up. Totalitarianism follows in a crackdown usually welcomed by those demanding an end to the chaos. There’s a period of darkness and evil, followed by spiritual renewal and renaissance. Then the p...
My household canceled our Netflix subscription months ago. We’d been grumbling for some time about the increase in programming that mocked our values and was either borderline pornographic or certainly blasphemous toward our faith. I really wasn’t surprised when I first saw promotions for the film “Cuties” a few weeks back because I’d been telling people to expect a cultural push toward acceptance of pedophilia, bestiality and other deviant practices for some time. “Cuties” is a movie that fo...
The great American experiment set about answering whether free people could govern themselves or not. If things progress as I fear they will, the answer will be no. Why? Because, as our second president John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” I invite readers to make the case for me that our nation is made up of a moral and religious people. Morality is the agreed upon code a society relies on...
Perhaps you, like me, have seen or read with utter disbelief news reports in which a blatant and obvious lie is declared to be truth and fact. Maybe it was a reporter standing in front of burning buildings while touting the nobility of “mostly peaceful” protesters. Or perhaps it was a politician stating “hundreds” of unarmed people are gunned down in our streets each year because their skin is a certain color. Wherever we turn we see outrageous statements we’re told to agree with or suffer th...
Somewhere between screams of “ORANGE MAN BAD!” and prolonged shouts of “TRUUMMMMP!” in the national social discourse we find legitimate news stories that, had they occurred in a less politically charged times, might have occupied front pages of newspapers across the U.S., perhaps even the world. Let’s catch you up on news real journalists would have made certain you knew about. Pentagon creates UFO task force to see if aerial objects pose threat. Failure of newspapers to slap this headline...
While no one knows precisely how many Americans own guns, the figure that is most consistent in surveys is 30 percent. The number is likely higher because there are citizens such as myself who choose not to discuss personal armaments, or lack thereof, with people we don’t know. So let’s say a third of Americans, or roughly 110 million, own guns. The Small Arms Survey produced a study in 2018 that concluded Americans own more than 40 percent of the estimated one billion small arms in civ...
It was reported last week that filings to homeschool are up 21 percent in the state of Nebraska. It's a trend seen nationwide. And, according to an April study released by EdChoice, a national organization that advocates for state-based school choice programs, 52 percent of Americans now have a favorable view of homeschooling. The Covid-19 virus shutting down schools last spring compelled many families to homeschool. Some hated it. But others discovered it can be rewarding, may bring families...
The fight between collectivists and individualists continues to be manifested by those calling for and opposing “one size fits all” approaches in fighting the coronavirus. We see it in calls for national and statewide mandates to wear masks and demands that schools reopen or remain closed this fall. The idea that people in Washington, D.C. or Lincoln can dictate policy to people in a county hundreds of miles away flies in the face of individualism. This is especially true in matters such as an e...
We live in a time when fear is prevalent. Fear of a virus, fear of being called a racist, fear that something written or said years ago will return to destroy, fear of taking a wrong turn in a city and ending up on the receiving end of mob violence. As chaos becomes increasingly the norm, many are wondering how we got here and what we can do to get things back to a semblance of normalcy. You may not like the answers. We got ourselves here. All of us. We were so consumed with our day to day...
Just when you thought things couldn’t get more insane in American politics, the self-described billionaire genius Kanye West announced over the weekend his intention to run for president of the United States this year. For those of you asking, “Isn’t he…?” the answer is yes. Mr. West, also known as Ye (pronounced Yay), is married to Kim Kardashian of Instagram and reality TV fame. Now most people will read this news, allow themselves a chuckle, and move on to watching the downfall of the Republi...
Predicting things is something I’m pretty good at. Today I hope I’m wrong. But unless President Trump puts down his tweet phone and surrounds himself with some competent campaign staffers, the people we see smashing things in the streets and toppling statues will be in control of the nation come January. Here’s why. An agenda-driven media in cahoots with wealthy globalist progressives in business and an out-of-control socialist academia have greased the skids for America’s slide into chaos....
My wife and I begin each day with prayer, after which I run through about a dozen news sources to be informed about what’s going on that day. Lately a run-through of the day’s news agenda has me wondering what’s next. Moon turning to blood? Random volcanoes and earthquakes of unprecedented magnitude? Meteors slamming into earth? Four ghostly personages riding horses across the sky? It’s understandable some people are afraid. Others are angry. And beneath it all lies a sense of helplessness to do...
Unrest, violence and hate spilling into the streets. Increasing disorder in urban areas. Talk of the need to throw out the old order and rebuild society from the ground up. This isn’t new. We’ve seen it before. And each time these things rise to overwhelming national prominence the outcome can be predicted. Tyranny and oppression. What we’re witnessing unfold in our media streams is the same play with different actors. It’s known as the “bottom up, top down, inside out” approach to overthrow a n...
The ideological war we’re witnessing in America is as old as mankind. We’ve see the pattern played out over and over throughout history. Prosperous and powerful nations become corrupt and detached from principled moorings. The people become complacent and restless. The disaffected rebel and rise up. Totalitarianism follows in a crackdown usually welcomed by those demanding an end to the chaos. There’s a period of darkness and evil, followed by spiritual renewal and renaissance. Then the prosperi...
I’m writing this column on Sunday evening. After seeing the successful launch of the Space X rocket from a NASA facility in Florida and a successful docking with the International Space Station, I was hopeful for a moment. And hope is something we badly need. Sadly, our media buried the story of the first private-enterprise-funded venture into space. It seems the only really important news centers on burning, looting, screaming, beating and the bewildering belief that illegally taking p...
I hope you feel as blessed and grateful as I do that we don’t live in a large city. One thing I hope we learn from this virus mess is that God never intended for millions of people to live on top of each other. He expressed His displeasure first at the Tower of Babel thousands of years ago, but we apparently didn’t get the message. As the virus takes a heavy toll on metropolitan areas, some mayors and governors are revealing their true natures by acting like fascist dictators. Even as we learn C...
We are discovering many things as a result of the corona virus and its impact. Among them are that work and jobs centralized in office buildings and business parks are over. Prior to 2020, only about 8 percent of wage and salaried employees in the U.S. worked remotely at least one day a week according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Then the virus hit and so did the landscape of work within our country as millions of Americans employed by thousands of companies were told they had to...
Christmas is upon us. It's a Christian holiday established by Pope Julian I in 4th century A.D. to mark the intervention of God in the events of human history by sending a savior to not only offer salvation, but also to show us how we should live. The gospel message is simply stated in John 3:16. Regrettably, religion, tradition and politics have diluted the simplicity of God's gift to the point that people are leaving the faith in large numbers. During my 40-plus years in ministry I've seen my...
