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“Thank you, Miss Marie, that was beautiful. And now, since it’s important to honor our country and our flag on such an occasion as this, (more…)

I am of Scottish and Danish stock: what could be sterner stuff? Yes, Braveheart and Norsemen. My people made Europe (more…)

(Denver Post, June 1) It was a graduation to remember. Our grandson and his classmates looked great in their blue mortarboard caps with gold tassels. Parents beamed and cameras flashed. The speaker was brief, taking his text from Psalms: “Children are a gift from God.” Ian’s dad caught the whole thing on video. Did I mention that Ian is five, and this was preschool commencement at Hosanna Lutheran? There was hardly a dry eye in the place as the graduates gave a fine choral rendition of “Kindergarten Here We Come.” Our little crown prince won’t recall much about that day as the years pass, but be honest: (more…)

Blessed Humbert of Romans was a Dominican preacher who died in 1277. He, along with how many thousands of other holy men (more…)

I’ve found that when a thread of conversation has developed, some patients have surprised themselves by realizing they’ve actually had a good time at the dental office. (more…)

Why do progressives work so diligently to weed Christianity out of the body politic? They wish to rewrite the Declaration of Independence (more…)

The worst Christmas song I’ve heard this year has to be Bruce Springsteen’s tuneless rendition of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Yet by forcing me to think about the lyrics, (more…)

Security guard? That’s not quite accurate. Jeanne Assam, the former police officer whose fearless shooting halted the massacre (more…)

(Denver Post, Dec. 2) Midgets everywhere. Rappers, starlets, shrinks, scolds, facilitators, litigators, hustlers, hucksters, victims, vegans. Ours is the age of the shallow, the small, the squalid. Where are the great? “There were giants in the earth in those days,” says Genesis. Granted, every era magnifies the memory of bygone times. But what now passes for excellence in manhood and womanhood, thought and expression, moral and civic life, would make our grandparents shake their heads. (more…)

Two turkeys named May and Flower will not be carved up tomorrow after all. They were spared by a mock presidential pardon (more…)

On Fox News the other night, Oct. 19, there was a discussion between Greta Van Susteren and Laura Ingraham about “Girls Gone Wild,” (more…)

The American Garden is the most beautiful on earth. No other garden produces more bounty and benefit for the people of the world (more…)

When a gang of “chip on their shoulders” black youth terrorize and beat white kids, it’s called an “expression of ethnic identity”. (more…)

Last week I was on the Auraria campus of CU-Denver a couple of times for notable events. On Sept. 11, President Hank Brown launched a new lecture series (more…)

That was the Los Angeles Times front-page headline on Aug. 16 about prayer flights over Denver in a helicopter, (more…)