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Police officers and citizens must have mutual respect
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE American citizens need police officers. Our state police, county sheriff’s department and city police all deserve our help, respect and decent pay. None of us like being recipients of speeding or other motor vehicle violations. However, often a warning or a ticket may be what it takes to get our attention…
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School bullying must stop; everyone must work together
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Four New Jersey teenagers have been charged in connection with the attack of a 14-year-old girl who later took her own life after video of the incident was posted on social media. One juvenile is charged with aggravated assault, two juveniles are charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and one…
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Tired of hearing about China? Stop the cash flow
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Do you get tired of hearing about China? Now we have floating surveillance balloons over our country. We are yet to know for sure what this is about, but time will tell. China is probably scouting out the next land or business purchase. They may have come up with an easy…
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Classified document stink piles
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE An Old Testament story records an overwhelming infestation of frogs throughout Egypt. There was no place in Egypt where frogs were not present in large numbers. The plague was sent in response to Pharoah’s attitude toward the Israelite people who lived in slavery under his rule. When God ended the plague,…
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Monterey Park, Evansville shootings, Hero Brandon Tsay: We need the news, good and bad
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE We like good news, but typically the news is not good. Too often, no news is good news. In reality, no news is bad news for us all. There is lots of recent bad news. A crazed gunman entered a dance hall in Monterey Park, Calif., killing 10 people and wounding…
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Renting or buying, which is best for you?
DR. GLENN MOLLETTE A retired minister and his wife had never owned a house. They had spent all their married lives living in housing provided by churches. At age 65 they bought a house and financed it for 15 years. They had been frugal and had saved a good downpayment. They paid for the house…
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Kevin McCarthy, President Joe Biden and Congress must work to solve problems
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Recently, in a Mexican restaurant in Houston, Texas, a patron shot and killed a man robbing other patrons. The robber was masked and brandishing what appeared to be a pistol. If the man who shot the robber is charged with murder for protecting himself and others from a potentially lethal threat,…
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Grieving and suffering loss
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Throughout the years, many of us watched Barbara Walters from NBC to ABC. I always tried to watch her special interviews. Often, the people she interviewed on prime-time television specials were “the” high-profile people at that given time. She became the highest-paid journalist of her day, being the first to sign…
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2023: Love yourself so you can love others
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE You can lose about 1 pound a week if you try. If you don’t try you won’t lose any. If you need to save some money then you need to pay yourself first. If you have a paycheck coming in, then set a goal of $500 a month if possible. Whatever…
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Light and strength for Christmas
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE When I was a child at Tomahawk Elementary School in Martin County, there were many kids who got little to nothing for Christmas. I had classmates who I would never ask if they got anything for Christmas because I already knew the answer. Some of these kids were just glad to…
Category: Uncommon Sense
