Don Surber's Highlights of the Week

Don Surber's Highlights of the Week

ITEM 1: NBC reported, “A House Republican proposal to reduce federal funding to the nation’s largest anti-hunger program would have a disastrous effect on low-income families, advocates say.”

The obesity rate for food stamp recipients is 37% for men and 52% for women.

ITEM 2: End Wokeness tweeted, “Rep. Shri Thanedar has formally introduced DJT articles of impeachment.”

How did Detroit manage to find and elect the one Indian in America who is stupid?…READ MORE…

Average Joe

Back in ancient times (when I was in junior high and dinosaurs roamed the earth), there was a very popular series in Reader’s Digest called “I Am Joe’s Body,” by John D. Ratcliff. Each month, in Mrs. Sumrall’s 7^th grade science class, she shared the most recent publication with our class. “Joe” was a 47-year-old man, and each article was narrated in first person by one of his body parts. They were all titled in the same vein—"I Am Joe’s Heart,” “I Am Joe’s Liver,” “I Am Joe’s Lungs,” etc.—and the series took us on a guided tour of Joe’s body, with each body part reporting how it functioned and what could go wrong.

From the perspective of junior high students, this novel approach of listening to Joe’s body tell us its secrets was much more interesting than listening to a science lecture, even a lecture by the much-loved Mrs. Sumrall. Recently, as I recalled the “Joe series,” I thought, “Wouldn’t it be interesting to read about some of Joe’s less tangible parts, as in “I Am Joe’s Soul” or “I Am Joe’s Conscience?”…READ MORE…

WATCH: James Comey has been ‘consumed with hate’ for Trump: Former FBI official

Attorney and former FBI official Chris Swecker dissects the ramifications of former FBI Director James Comey’s controversial Instagram post on ‘The Evening Edit.’…READ MORE…

Mourning Glory

A niece's loving tribute to her Great Uncle, killed in France in 1918 during the Great War

Mourning Glory

As the sun sets
over the rolling, green hills
beyond Oise-Aisne,
the pensive visitors depart,
and the night envelops
the cemetery
in a shroud of silence.
It is in these quiet hours
of darkness,
beneath the vastness
of the same starlit sky
that shines back home,
the souls of the fallen gather,
their hushed whispers
echoing in the dark,
and floating
on the cool, night air.…READ MORE…

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