Bountiful, British Columbia, is a town just across the Canada/U.S. border, close to the Washington/Idaho line – which makes it about a 3 hour drive from Spokane. Think fly fishing! Unlike Miss Daisy’s special ride, a trip to Bountiful today puts one in the midst of a settlement of one of the off-shoots of the... Continue Reading

“Nones” now largely mirror Mainstream America HARTFORD, Conn. – The 34 million American adults who don’t identify with any particular religious group reflect the general population in terms of marital status, educational attainment, racial and ethnic makeup, and income, according to a new study by Trinity College researchers, American Nones: The Profile of the No... Continue Reading

Many of us are cynical about promises made by politicians. “Campaign promises are made to be broken” is a venerable truism of American politics. There are “truth-in-advertising” laws against misrepresentation by private businesses, but no such protections apply to political speech. Why do politicians so often deny, stretch, obscure, evade or mutilate truth? In brief,... Continue Reading

IMHO: A Weekly Commentary from our Publisher ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me.” Boy, oh, boy, is that ever wrong. When Joe Feuerherd, writing in the August 28 (my birthday of all things) National Catholic Reporter called me an ‘aging white protestant southerner,’ it really hurt. Here I... Continue Reading

IMHO: A Weekly Commentary from our Publisher Baseball fans are aware of the biggest current rivalry in the Major Leagues (unless you’re not one of the Eastern Elitists) – it’s the Yanks and the Sox (the red ones, from Boston, of course). Since they are in the same division they play each other 18 times... Continue Reading