The LS Voice

The year after we moved back to California from Colorado, I was 10.  My brothers were 8, 6, and just 5.  My dad had grown up backpacking in ...

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This video is graphic and disturbing.  If it offends you, I am truly sorry.  If you are bothered by senseless mob violence in the name of th...

Merciful Jesus, Who takes away the sins of the world, Grant them rest. Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, Grant them...

This is the second in my stories for my girls.  It's one my youngest especially loves.  It would have been early in 1975. As long as I...

Okay, I usually don't do things like this, but a friend of mine forwarded a forward of a forward that I actually looked at before deleti...

My youngest girls are constantly asking me to tell them stories about my life before them.  So, I think from time to time that I'll writ...

John Brennan, President Obama's top advisor on terrorism, has issued a new report.  In it he astutely notes that military efforts around...

The UK Daily Mail reports this week that two hunters in New England died.  While tracking a wounded deer, one of the men shot at what he tho...

Are we REALLY going to allow ourselves (we "US Americans") to be FOOLED again? The UK Guardian is already starting the fear mong...

I often hear politicians, Republican and Democrat, including President Obama tell us that government spending is needed to drive the develop...

Mother Jones magazine (yes, I'm a subscriber) featured an article called "Michele Bachmannn:  Crazy Like a Fox?" in its August...

I've heard much in the media about Herman Cain. I've heard liberal commentators call him a "bad apple".  I've heard ...

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for...

As I've mentioned, President Obama seems to believe that the fundamental economic principles of communism are the same as those on which...

On October 19th, Peter Nicholas of the Los Angeles Times reported on line that President Obama said the following at a meeting in North Ches...

I wonder if the Libyan rebels are worried that their mistreatment of Colonel Gadhafi's body after his martyrdom will offend the Muslim...

When I was a boy I spent a lot of time on the Sacramento River delta.  I had some favorite spots I liked to go.  One was a little island in ...

There's been a lot of talk about America's national debt.  Some say we need to increase our levels of borrowing.  Some say we don...

President Obama has recently declared that the "highest levels" of the Iranian government must be held responsible for the recentl...

I'm not a person who looks for signs from God.  But I'm not past seeing them when they're put right in front of me. In 1994 I ...

When our oldest boy was in 6th grade, he attended a school-sponsored "health education" lecture.  Teachers were asked to leave the...

I've been working out of town for most of the last 18 months.  Sometimes I get home every weekend; sometimes I'm out for 2 weeks at ...