Archive for ‘Opinion’
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Uppermost House: My wife, a mom on a mission
By S. Peter Lewis BN Columnist On my desk at work, I have a photograph of my wife, Karen, when she was 20 years old; and on my computer background just a foot to the right is another photograph of her that was snapped after 30 years of marriage — I can’t tell the two [...]
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Small World: Forgive us our debts
By Henry Precht BN Columnist This discussion is about debt, the oppressive burden weighing on all of us, some more, some less. The same lament could have been chalked up on a cave wall in Neolithic times. Debt is ancient, the experts say, older than money. Obligations to neighbors came first; money later, bringing with [...]
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My Irish Up: How to be dashing
By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist Dashing and debonair Patrick Macnee, who played the sophisticated secret service agent who had a way with the ladies in “The Avengers”… review in Esquire When you need to be dashing and debonair, add that touch of class with a tie by Prada… Adv. in GQ After a good deal [...]
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Small World: The Great Islamic Divide
By Henry Precht BN Columnist According to Mark Twain, “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” Had Twain lived longer he might also have said that there was a divine purpose in Khomeini’s revolution in Iran, for it taught Americans a full course on Islamic theology. If you were absent for those beginning [...]
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My Irish Up: Make millions, apply now!
By Mike Corrigan News Columnist By 2025, the average cost of a college education figures to be about one and a half million dollars per student, excluding tips and gratuities (1). It’s become difficult for average American families to send their students off to even old State U without incurring crippling debt — but really, [...]
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Uppermost House: Calvin grows up…sort of
By S. Peter Lewis BN Columnist In the last frame of a great Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, Calvin is sitting at the kitchen table with a bowl in front of him, holding a spoon and looking straight into the eyes of the viewer. “I won’t eat any cereal that doesn’t turn the milk purple,” he [...]
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Small World: Trying to solve Syria
By Henry Precht BN Columnist Probably not many readers have devoted a lot of thought to the question of what to do about Syria, site of a two-year, deadly civil war where the autocrat Bashar al Assad may — repeat may — have used nerve gas and President Obama is thinking about arming the rebels. [...]
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My Irish Up: Where we went wrong (Part 1)
By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist Let’s start with the Sea Peoples. Nobody ever starts with the Sea Peoples. The Sea Peoples came out of the Mediterranean four thousand years ago and fell upon the Hittites. They fell on the Hittites and refused to get off. That was it for the Hittites. The Hittites were at [...]
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Small World: Reading ‘Mockingbird’ up North
By Henry Precht BN Columnist Until recently, I had never read Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, although when published in 1960, it received high praise, including a Pulitzer Prize, and was made into a popular film, gaining an Oscar for Gregory Peck. Before I retired, I rarely read fiction. I especially didn’t read [...]
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My Irish Up: Launches 2016 campaign
By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist As a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, I pledge that I will not run any campaign advertising until this summer, at the earliest. I’m a little tired of political ads myself, I don’t know whom to attack yet, and the commercial slots can now be taken [...]
