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Summer’s always badfor road construction, but here’s a word of warning: If you hate detours, stay out of Valparaiso. I’ve never seen it worse. Even though Lincolnway’s always bad with frequent gridlocks downtown, the rest of the city is nearly impossible to negotiate without having to detour at least once. Jaywalkers don’t help matters. Very frustrating. As for the roundabouts, it’s either people going too fast or too slow. Some dummies even hesitate inside the circle.

Melania Trumpreleased a statement saying “Looking forward to collaborating with all of our #BeBest Ambassadors. Delighted to be working alongside so many people both inside and outside of government to better the lives of children everywhere!” The level of blatant hubris is stunning here. I hear that it improves children’s lives not to be held in concentration camps.

Nothing ever happenedat Sandy Hook, Columbine, Las Vegas, the Pulse nightclub, Virginia Tech, etc. until it did. A mass shooting can occur anywhere and at anytme. Police-grade weapons and body armor are available to the general public, so a modern police department has to be ready. All it takes is one deranged person with a grudge and a gun and you’ve got another national headline and more grisly statistics.

It seems odd to methat those who fight for second amendment rights directly affect everyone else. We need to be policed by military looking cops because you want to play with military-style weapons. This is an example of more rights for few that trample on the rights of many. This is similar to religious groups trying to force everyone to live by the rules they choose to practice.

Pretty low of Mr. Davichto take such a one-sided look at the so-called abortion debate. The protester and anti-abortion labels clearly indicate that only bad people hate abortion. The kindly escorts who are pro-choice clearly hold the moral high ground in Davich’s poor understanding of human life and when it begins. If you pulled your head out of the politically correct sand and realized that human beings were being killed on the other side of those walls, what would you do?

Russia says the downed U.S. dronewas in Iranian air space, contradicting key claim by Washington.

No former president, from either party, has ever endorsed Donald Trump. That should be a huge red flag for any reasonable person.

In case you are still curiousabout WWJD, he would never put children in cages. Maybe it’s time to re-evaluate your religious values, and then separate them from political extremists.

The Indianapolis archdiocesefiring gay teachers would be comical if it wasn’t so ignorant! All one has to do is to recall the past publicity of the church scandals in all denominations involving sex and the abuse of children as well as those at risk. It seem that the ones in authority within the church leadership on this matter keep kicking the can down the road! It’s time to consult the greatest book ever written, specifically the passages “He who is without sin cast the first stone!” and “What you do to the least of these you do unto me,” “Love thy neighbor as thy self,” and “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy fellow man.”

Does anyone else wonderif Indianapolis Cathedral High School is getting state voucher money for its students? Their archbishop is reported to have ordered the firing of a teacher.

This country has put an uneducated, uncouth idiot in the White House who I am sure has to have help getting out of bed in the morning. So why would anyone be surprised he is about to get us into an unnecessary war because his unmitigated stupidity pulled us out of the Iran nuclear deal. Oh, right, it was an Obama deal so it was bad. Send his bone spurs and male children over there to fight his self-created war!

I sometimes take issue with the quality of writing in the Post-Tribune (“I” statements, not running the names of people in police custody, etc.), but they can always take pride in being better than the chuckling dimwits of the WGN morning “news” who spend as much time marveling at videos from YouTube as they do talking about actual news. Their program is truly dreck.

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