Beyond the sadness and loss of life, there is something troubling about a car-pedestrian accident last September 25 in Urbandale that took the life of Jasmira Kadic, 60, and seriously injured her husband. The tragedy is heartbreaking. It forever changed two families and deeply affected their ...
My dad sent me a vat of olive oil from the village in Greece recently -- by which I mean to say that he shipped it months ago, paying 30 euros to have it stacked on a slow boat from Piraeus by way of a company named after a Greek god. I had not asked for the olive oil and didn't really want ...
Tuesday's election wasn't a blue wave or even a blue tsunami: It was a blue apocalypse. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who leads the one notable bright spot on the map, referred to the wipeout as "close to an extinction-level event" for the GOP. It was the worst midterm defeat for one party in ...
Republicans have a lot of things to worry about after their catastrophic 2026 midterm, and one of them might be Jon Ossoff, the newly reelected Democratic senator from Georgia. The presidential buzz had begun even before Ossoff won reelection by 18 points in purplish Georgia, and will get ...
In recent columns you call for a greater “appreciation and understanding” of the different doctrines between and within Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. But given the diversity of doctrines, especially within Protestantism - to wit, the divergence of beliefs regarding the Eucharist or Lord’s Supper, as well as many Protestants emphasis on conversion - how do you imagine this possible? A Roman Catholic theologian and professor of religious studies at Siena College (a Franciscan college in NY), Fr. Dennis D. Tamburello concurs with Calvinist’s emphasis on piety, in which the ...
Energy in the Election The Blue Wave was surely strengthened by higher gasoline prices, higher diesel prices for farmers, most industrial and construction uses and higher natural gas for home heating. The Dem’s surprise win for governor of Texas could spell challenges for oil and gas interests. The first 24 hours following the election saw Texas crude fall $8 per bbl. and gasoline decline 20 cents per gallon. By midday Friday, both crude and gasoline bounced back up slightly on comments by Iran’s Ayatollah that the US would remain hostile towards Iran no matter which party was in ...
