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    Publishers Perspective: Life Is Full Of Challenges

    Josh Warburton - June 6, 2026
    Publishers Perspective

    Publishers Perspective: Life Is Full Of Change

    Howard Sierer

    Publishing On My Own Now

    Lisa Rutherford

    So Long…It’s Been A Good Ride

    Although there is much of substance to support it, don’t hold your breath for impeachment ... at least, not yet.

    Don’t count on impeachment, at least not yet

    Ed Kociela - June 4, 2019
    I do not believe that it is hypocritical to be pro-life and support the death penalty.

    Pro-life and pro-death penalty: It’s all about protecting the innocent

    Christine Flowers - June 3, 2019
    Debunking the Lake Powell Pipeline is straightforward upon examining the faulty rationale being used to foist the pipeline on today’s water users.

    Debunking the Lake Powell Pipeline

    Howard Sierer - June 2, 2019
    Enabling human trafficking enterprises that exploit defenseless women and children, which congressional inaction encourages, is not who we are.

    Republican border bill would end human trafficking

    Joe Guzzardi - May 31, 2019
    Michelle Thomas, a longtime advocate for those poisoned by the fallout from the nuclear detonations at the Nevada Test Site, left this good Earth recently.

    RIP, Michelle Thomas

    Ed Kociela - May 29, 2019
    When thousands of Central Americans overrun our border every day and overwhelm our ability to process and care for their families, it's an invasion.

    The invasion of America is not fake

    Michael Reagan - May 28, 2019
    Internet privacy? Forget about it. You have a better chance of finding a pod of humpback whales in your office cubicle than online security.

    Internet privacy

    Will Durst - May 27, 2019
    Elizabeth Warren's proposal for student loan forgiveness will entice students to take loans with the expectation of having them cancelled in the future.

    Another bad idea from Elizabeth Warren

    Howard Sierer - May 26, 2019
    As urban areas are pushing for more gun controls, Second Amendment sanctuary counties are mounting an equal amount of resistance.

    Second Amendment sanctuary counties: “We will not comply”

    Harold Pease - May 23, 2019
    There is no middle ground on abortion. The fight for the right to life is a war. If you believe that abortion is murder, you will fight to end it.

    With new abortion legislation, America on the right track

    Christine Flowers - May 22, 2019
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