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    Publishers Perspective: Life Is Full Of Challenges

    Josh Warburton - June 6, 2026
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    Publishers Perspective: Life Is Full Of Change

    Howard Sierer

    Publishing On My Own Now

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    So Long…It’s Been A Good Ride

    There may be no better time than Thanksgiving to share stories that you’d like younger members of your family to know.

    Telling family stories at Thanksgiving

    Howard Sierer - November 24, 2019
    These impeachment hearings are so polluted by partisanship that I have very little confidence we are ever going to get to the truth.

    Impeachment hearings are a lose-lose proposition

    Guest Contributor - November 23, 2019
    As the Plymouth pilgrims starved, the solution to their poverty was to extract socialism immediately from their midst, as it is for us today as well.

    The pilgrims’ failed socialist experiment

    Harold Pease - November 21, 2019
    If mass gun violence becomes so frequent that it become a real problem, the answer will have very little to do with whether we abolish the Second Amendment.

    Reason applied: “The time has come to abolish the Second Amendment”

    Guest Contributor - November 20, 2019
    What is more important, the Second Amendment or the Fifth Commandment? The time has come for us to abolish the Second Amendment.

    The Second Amendment vs. the Fifth Commandment: Which is more important?

    Ed Kociela - November 19, 2019
    Abortion is considered one of the gravest sins in the church. Joe Biden is a strong proponent of Roe v. Wade, and the church is right to deny him communion.

    Catholic priest had every right to deny Joe Biden communion

    Christine Flowers - November 18, 2019
    The progressive wish list touted by almost all Democratic presidential candidates is impossibly out of reach both fiscally and politically.

    Warren lets the cat out of the bag

    Howard Sierer - November 17, 2019
    So what is the constitutional solution to enslaving national debt? The Constitution can save us, but only if we have the resolve to use it as written.

    The hard truth on ending enslaving national debt

    Harold Pease - November 14, 2019
    George Soros does not know Michael White or the man he killed. But Soros used his money to bring his political agenda to our city.

    George Soros is interfering with local politics

    Christine Flowers - November 13, 2019
    The moral of the Mexico Mormon massacre: Don’t be stupid

    The moral of the Mexico Mormon massacre: Don’t be stupid

    Ed Kociela - November 12, 2019
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