Discerning the difference: A fly in the soup or a rodent in the oven
I recently started a Sunday sermon with two stories that sat in juxtaposition to one another.
Another viewpoint: Debt limit deal avoids long-term fixes
The Washington Post
Niki Kelly: Bring on better candidates for president
By Niki Kelly
Mark Franke: Essential characteristics of public leaders
A group of friends were talking one afternoon about what we should look for in our elected officials.
Bud Herron: Boys and girls and stomping frogs
I spent a considerable amount of time in my childhood trying hard not to be a girl.
Michael Hicks: Money, illusion and the Indiana state budget
Indiana’s legislative session addressed some of the most vexing public problems the state faces: Hospital monopolies, housing, collapse in college attendance and a slew of social issues.
Another viewpoint: GOP lawmakers transfer $212 million in utility costs to ratepayers
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Alan Winslow: ‘It’s close to sinful … it’s terrible … it’s cruel’
“What’s going on in Florida is … close to sinful. It’s just terrible what they’re doing … It just, to me, is, I dunno, it’s cruel,” says President Biden.
Michael Leppert: The blessing of our national debt has made us great
Alexander Hamilton, America’s first secretary of the treasury said, “A national debt, if it is not excessive, to us will be a national blessing.”
A deficit of attention
According to a limited Google search I just conducted (which, I confess, an expert does not make), between 3% and 5% of the U.S. population has some form of attention deficit disorder.