Political Smears in 2022 are Tame Compared with the Past

As the 2022 midterm elections draw ever nearer, the slurs and mud-slinging are picking up. Liberals are calling conservatives domestic terrorists and white supremacists. Conservatives are calling liberals leftist lunatics and depraved communists. Pretty nasty stuff, right? Not really, not when you look at the kind of mudslinging gutter politics that existed in the 19th …

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Sweet Home Alabama

    My husband grew up in Florida and I grew up in Mississippi. We met in Georgia when we were both “early middle-aged,” and shortly thereafter, we retired and moved to Alabama. We are often asked why the heck we moved to the Cotton State. After all, the word “Alabama” is usually prefaced by …

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Have you ever noticed…”

The similarity between groundhogs and Democrats? I had a rodent problem that my wife absolutely refuses to let me deal with. I want to agree with her that those furry things can be cute, but! The line was drawn when a couple years ago immediately after I planted my onions, broccoli, cabbage and some other …

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Running Towards Freedom

 Image by Sergei Akulich from Pixabay I was just reading the news, or at least all of the news I can ingest without experiencing an equal and opposite intestinal reaction, and noticed a highly impactful story from our friends at Fox News about a 47-year-old woman who disappeared last year, only to be “found” by sheriff deputies. …

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