Joe and Jenny Robb came to see us in August 2012, after being sued for foreclosure on their $72,000 mortgage. They ran into problems in paying on the mortgage when Joe’s income dropped after he was forced to find a new job.

I voted for Sherrod Brown in his U.S. Senate races mostly for peace and civil liberties reasons and I've sometimes felt let down by his stances.

Forty years ago this week, the last American ground troops were pulled out of South Vietnam to comply with the U.S. peace treaty with North Vietnam.

Excerpt: In the midst of Holy Week imagine if, as prophesied in the book of Matthew along with various other gospels of the New Testament, Jesus returned. 

Given the current condition of the world, WWJT?

What would Jesus tweet?

"News" comes from anywhere and everywhere these days.

Maybe a better word for it is information.

Early today, several of my friends changed their profile pictures on Facebook to a red background with a pink equal sign, and my curiosity piqued. Perhaps you saw it, too.

Excerpt: No matter what Barack Obama does, he cannot escape the shadow of his former political opponent.

Hillary Clinton, back from her global travels visiting places and peoples hardly heard of on this continent, is stealing the spotlight without even touching the stage.

Excerpt: Because of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation’s governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Constitution’s Framers would be appalled.