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Uncommon Sense: Donald Trump: Rejection is painful and can create lifelong embarrassment
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Rejection can be difficult to handle. Perhaps an employer once said, “You no longer have a job here.” To be dismissed from your job would be painful, especially if you loved your job and wanted to stay. Imagine a spouse or a boyfriend/girlfriend saying, “I don’t want to be with you…
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Uncommon Sense: Brittney Griner – let’s all stay out of Russia
By Dr. Glenn Mollette Brittney Griner is an American basketball star on trial in a courtroom outside of Moscow. She is a prisoner of Russia and is facing a possible prison sentence on drug charges. Griner recently pled guilty after Russian authorities accused her of having a vape cartridge with hashish oil in her luggage…
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Uncommon Sense: Airline travel woes, flying is frustrating
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Airline travelers have experienced frustration since the 2021 holidays, as covered by national news. Travel delays and even trip cancellations have been aggravating experiences for travelers. If you only have a weekend and your trip includes a flight Friday and a return flight Sunday, you are chancing a lost weekend. Being…
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Uncommon Sense: Mental illness erupts into pure hell in Allen, Kentucky
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Allen, Kentucky, is a place that holds fond memories for me. When I was only 16 years old, Allen Baptist Church invited me to speak for a weekend youth event. I had the opportunity to meet and work with over a hundred people from the Allen community. Lasting friendships were made…
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Uncommon Sense: Happy Fourth of July
We can figure it out BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE America has always been a land of hard work and struggles but always with the hope and dream of success and prosperity. On the Fourth of July we celebrate our Declaration of Independence, ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The Second Continental…
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Uncommon Sense: Make today a good one
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Let’s all try to spend today and the rest of our lives more wisely. With rising inflation, we are all having to spend our hard-earned paychecks with care. Life is the same. We have less life today than yesterday. We don’t have as much life to spend today. We are all…
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Uncommon Sense: A father and a child can make a great family
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Father’s Day is coming one more time, and you still have a chance at having a great family. Fathers, like most all people, have good days and bad days. They have great seasons of life and some that are more difficult. Few fathers will look back over their lives and say,…
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Uncommon Sense: Protecting our children from the shooters
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Most federal career politicians end up very wealthy. They make good salaries and have great health insurance and very nice retirement packages. They typically develop political action committees that cover expenses the government doesn’t pay. When they retire, they can donate campaign funds they have accumulated throughout the years to their…
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Uncommon Sense: More mass killings; What is the answer?
BY GLENN MOLLETTE Do parents in America want to spend every school day hoping and praying their children will not be heinously murdered? Do children want to spend their days constantly looking up to see who might be entering their room with an assault weapon? Do you want to walk the grocery store aisles wondering…
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Uncommon Sense: Why did Memorial Day change?
BY GLENN MOLLETTE Decoration Day was observed May 30 from 1868 to 1970 to decorate the graves and honor those dying in military service for our country. In 1971 Congress officially made the last Monday in May Memorial Day. On this day, Americans take time to pay respect and decorate the graves of our military…