This well-known rhetorical flourish at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence needs closer consideration. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, ...
The diagnosis was not a surprise — well, yes it was, because like many men with a health issue we try to deny it, or delay treatment when everyone knows that "early detection" is critical to a cure. My PSA (prostate-specific antigen) had been slowly creeping upward for the last two years. ...
I was mistaken in my recent letter to the editor that the out-of-state corporate owner of the Makena Mauka portion and the rest of the 1,800-acre Makena Golf and Beach Club development is planning to use Iao Aquifer water. The corporation plans to pump from the brackish Kamaole Aquifer. This is also risky. With current and planned use, the Kamaole Aquifer will exceed its estimated capacity originally set in 1990. The estimate itself has a level 3 certainty rating, which is the lowest confidence applied to Hawaii aquifers (mauicounty.gov). The aquifer is also expected to become drier, ...
Left-wing terrorism is a serious problem in the United States, though for political reasons it doesn't receive anything like the attention right-wing violence gets. When most people think of violence connected to abortion, they imagine attacks on abortion clinics — yet lately, pro-abortion ...
I still come across people who believe Trump won the 2020 election, that the attack on the U.S Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an act of patriotism, that Trump's subsequent indictments and felonies were Biden's work, that most immigrants are criminals, that Democrats are evil, that Jews are ...
Since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I am told, I was not surprised to hear Dolly Parton say in an interview that she once entered a "Dolly Parton lookalike" drag queen contest in Los Angeles unannounced — and lost. Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, enjoyed telling that ...
