I received a notice of a proposed tax increase (PINK POSTCARD) in the recent mail. Upon inspection, I found it listed 2023 Taxes on my home of $568.50 and 2024 taxes Estimated at $568.50, or no change from 2023.

A Texas mother was told other patrons at an indoor trampoline park were bothered by her breastfeeding her daughter in public, but that isn’t what raised her ire. That came from another mother, whom soon got an earful about the subject. Kayla Martinez said after she was finished, she was politely informed by a manager that other customers had complained to staff about her breastfeeding...

An acquaintance recently informed me that the opinions of a certain news source were "rather partisan ..." But every opinion is partisan -- including those we hold to be "fair and balanced" -- which is why I quit buying the devious brand of discourse pushed by our ministry of propaganda, mistakenly named the American free press...

"Thank you" goes to Jennifer Johnson and Dr. Nate Kotschwar for saving Mr. Pickles, the abused kitten. The world needs more people like you! All creatures have the right to not be abused and thrown aside like a piece of trash. Everyone who ons a pet has the responsibility to take care of that pet...

Remember the "peace dividend"? Military cuts at the end of the Cold War helped President Clinton preside over an expanding economy and become the last president, so far, to submit a balanced budget to Congress. Then came the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and America's descent, following Britain and the Soviet Union, into the quagmire that is Afghanistan...