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Louis Roney: Let me call you something or other

The future of the American family depends upon slashing the president’s enormous spending. His present expenses are not sustainable.

Roney: Where it stops nobody knows

Everything in sight to do with our government gets larger at every glance.

Louis Roney: Bits and tidbits

There were no sun-blocking lotions in those days, and if we applied baby oil, it was probably a useless precaution.

The country needs some R & R — no, not rest and recreation, Romney and Rubio!

Louis Roney: So proudly we hail

No place like the USA

Whatever concept of God you have, if you have been around the world a bit, you’ll recognize that “America” is a blessed piece of real estate.

Louis Roney: A conservative’s better half

She’s the sweetest smart person I have ever known.

I was not always the luckiest of guys, but when this beautiful, intelligent, talented gal fell for a cracker like me, I knew I had hit the jackpot.

Louis Roney: Glances at a fading past

Now our president gets the idea that he can copy Roosevelt by attacking today’s unemployment with 1930s methods.

Unemployment was rampant, but our national debt was not yet as alarming as it is today.

Louis Roney: Using the old bean

Shaw said that dough should be spelled “doe,” though should be “tho,” through should be “thru,” cough should be “cawf.”

Finding new and more economical ways of saying things is admirable it seems to me.

Louis Roney: Odds to an end

It occurs to me how lonely my life would be if I confined my friendships solely to Conservatives….

An English acquaintance of many years born to considerable affluence has political opinions that are consistently Left wing.

Louis Roney: Our heroes, past and present

Let's think of those heroes past and present who fought so that we can all be free Americans today.

When I was a kid, my father was more than my dad — he was my No. 1 “hero.”

Louis Roney: Forward — to what?

“Forward” is the word ominously chosen by President Barack Obama as his campaign slogan this year.

America’s President Obama has been called a “Communist” by people privy to his innermost thoughts.

Louis Roney: The best of all possible happenings

The theater at Trinity Prep School in Winter Park continues to be the setting for a great many exhibitions of what fine natural histrionic talent and wise guidance can accomplish.

That high school students would tackle a work on the level of Bernstein’s “Candide” is remarkable in itself.

Louis Roney: The green-eyed monster

Jealousy is the most unrewarding of human emotions — no one wins anything from it.

“Man wants but little here on earth, but that little is too often what another man has.”

Louis Roney: Take a note …

Washington politicians are profiting mightily by trading stocks that are affected by political actions.

Why do we show famous paintings of naked women to grammar school classes as great art, and at the same time find photos of nude women pornographic?

Louis Roney: American Democracy

The fact that the vote of a highly intelligent person could be invalidated by the bought vote of an illiterate disenchanted people then as it still may do today.

The long and short of it was that democracy’s reliance upon the masses of common people was equivalent to building a large edifice on an unstable foundation.

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Review: Chanticleer charms again

Harmony like no other

Chanticleer lived up to its reputation as “America’s premier vocal ensemble.”