Most people believe Social Security is a contract with the government 鈥� you pay in and you are paid back. The sad truth isn鈥檛 readily known. Back in 1960s, the left-leaning Supreme Court ruled in Flemming v. Nestor the government has no legal, contractual obligation to pay us our ...
I鈥檝e written before about my feeling of importance of family and friends. I鈥檝e shared my fear of aging and thoughts about what COVID-19 did to our society. Many people told my husband and me how they liked reading about us when we were featured in the senior section of this newspaper a few ...
Today we are continually bombarded with 鈥渞ace鈥� as a wedge issue to divide people. For full disclosure, I am a fundamentalist Christian with a biblical worldview. I am a widower after 46 years of marriage to a Vietnamese lady. While stationed at Marshall University from 1973 to 1977, my ...
I understand there has been some backlash for comments a local pastor made about 鈥渢aking back the rainbow.鈥� I do not know the man, but what he said is absolutely true. The rainbow was given by God as a sign that He would not destroy the Earth by water again, after what is called ...
House leaders are currently demanding 鈥淪ocial Security reform,鈥� meaning cuts to Social Security benefits, as part of any spending and budgeting going forward, and they are coming squarely after seniors and retirees. A so-called Social Security Commission (HR 281) is a way of sneaking into ...
With the celebration of 鈥淛uneteenth鈥� on June 19, it is time to clear up some misconceptions about the date and 鈥渃elebration.鈥� While I am certainly glad that slavery was abolished in 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation by Lincoln on Sept. 22, 1862, did not free anyone and was not an ...
