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Contemplation Corner: Jesus says, ‘Take up your cross.’
“Jesus says, ‘Take up your cross.’ He didn’t say, ‘Make up your cross,’ ‘Create your cross,’ or ‘Go after your cross.’ He said, ‘Take up your cross,’ and this means to have the courage to see your pain….Acknowledge it. Say, ‘This is where I feel pain. It is my life and my life also means […]
Jim Hightower for the week of January 5, 2026
Billionaire Money is Corrupting Our Democracy by Jim Hightowerjimhightower.com Recent polling confirms what you’d hear if you talked to people at most any Chat & Chew Café across America – namely, our political system is broken. In fact, nearly all of us feel that way. While people strongly believe that representative democracy is the […]
Farm and Food File for the week of January 5, 2026
by Alan Guebertfarmandfoodfile.com USDA begins 2026 down 20 percent in staff with plans to cut more by Alan Guebertfarmandfoodfile.com One of the most under-reported stories of 2025–the departure of more than 20,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) employees–finally surfaced just before the quietest, most unwatched news periods of any year, the week between Christmas […]
Bit & Pieces: Tiny Pecan Pies
by Paula Johnson Do you love pecan pie, yet want only one or two bites because it is so rich? Do you love cookies, but feel that making 12 at a time and repeating the in and out of the oven for each batch gets bit tedious and a lot of effort for a short […]
The True Book of Mostly Unrelated Stories: 2026 – What will it reveal to us
by John Mooy We’re just days away now from leaving the year 2025 behind and entering 2026. It has been quite a year to say the least, I can remember as a “kid” in Marcellus with the goal of staying awake to welcome in the new year. The new year was always a time of […]
Cal Thomas for the week of December 29, 2025
An old and a new year by Cal ThomasCalThomas.com “What’s past is prologue” wrote William Shakespeare in “The Tempest,” a thought profound enough to be engraved on the National Archives building in Washington. As America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, a blip on history’s ledger compared to many other nations, we would do well […]
Cal Thomas for the week of December 22, 2025
Wrong predictions? Never mind by Cal ThomasCalThomas.com End of the year predictions about the future have been around at least since the days of Nostradamus, but what about past predictions? There were plenty of predictions that electing Donald Trump the first time and then re-electing him, would cause economic Armageddon. Democrats and their media mouthpieces […]
Jim Hightower for the week of December 29, 2025
Why America’s Legislatures Routinely Screw Working Families” by Jim Hightowerjimhightower.com As we head into a momentous election year, with state and national legislative seats up for grabs, even let-them-eat-cake Republicans are scrambling to sound sympathetic to today’s hard-hit working-class families. Of course, tongue-clucking concern doesn’t mean actually doing anything to help this majority […]
Jim Hightower for the week of December 22, 2025
A Christmas Message: There’s No Jesus in “Christian Nationalism” by Jim Hightowerjimhightower.com In keeping with the season, I offer a little political anecdote about Christmas. More specifically, it’s about the moral teachings of the biblical Jesus, which formed the ethical foundation of Christmas and gives Christianity itself its true gravity. The story […]
Farm and Food File for the week of December 29, 2025
Figures don’t lie but we often lie to ourselves by Alan Guebertfarmandfoodfile.com Mark Twain would have loved this. The story goes that Twain, arguably America’s greatest writer and humorist, was the originator of the witticism “Figures don’t lie, but liars do figure.” Research, however, confirms that the story–go figure–is itself a lie; […]
