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The Stickers Only Stick If You Let Them One of my favorite books is “You Are Special” by Max Lucado. When I was a news guy, I would get asked to come read or speak in schools, and this story was always the one I picked. It’s about a village where toys live. All day long, they would give out slapping circles or star stickers to each other. Circles were for those who failed to do what was culturally correct; the stars were those who followed the directives. The central characte

The Great Harvest: The Difference Between Common Sense and Nonsense.` The great harvest is underway. Farmers work all spring and summer...

Oregon, You Amaze & Trouble Us We prepare to leave Oregon more troubled than when we moved from the state three-plus years ago. The state...

The Power of the People Now It’s Up To You, Roseburg I’ve been talking privately with people involved in the Roseburg High School case,...

The Power of the Tongue It is said that life and death are in the power of the tongue. If true, and I believe it is, what are we speaking...

Oregon TurnAround Something beautiful is happening in Oregon. Yes, Portland is bombarded with riots and misguided people trying to stop...

Cheap Tricks (Picture the Oregonian) When power loses its grip, it panics, twists facts, tries to discredit, and in this case, falls flat...

You Scare People, You Really Do I’m hearing some interesting buzz on the internet. You guys who comment and pay attention to what we’re...

I’m Losing Hope For Oregon https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-portlands-dystopia-delusion-coming-city-near-all-us I’m truly...

Portland is in Trouble Portland, Oregon, is in trouble. I grew up here and still have family in the area. I’m here right now and drove...

I Had No Idea You Were Out There In the past few weeks, my email and social media have been bombarded, in a good way, by people who are...

Dear Tina, https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPSMopiDB7D/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link As one can see from this video, Portland has a...

The Return of the Rational Mind? It’s almost laughable the reaction the mainstream media and those who hate President Trump have to...

Oregonians are fed up! Oh, there’s some pretty major movement when it comes to politics in Oregon. You all know about the recall effort...

What is True Kindness? Before the pandemic, homelessness was getting out of hand in Oregon, and the best state and city leaders could do...

Time To Change Too many of us spend years of our lives reading the same page of our story over and over, wondering why nothing ever...

How Do We Unify? I often hear about unification online. It comes up most when one party or the other is flailing. At this moment in time,...

Free Speech, Pick & Choose? People have no idea what free speech is. It’s rather frightening how ignorant and weak we’ve become as a...

Change Is In The Air Fall is one of my favorite times of year. Fall shows us that things are most beautiful right before they die. Days...

Amazing Grace Millions of people watched as Erika Kirk, publicly, in front of the entire world, offered forgiveness to the man who...