Old Guy Rant: Memorial Day reflections and questions

Political column by Larry Wiwi With the waning of the covid virus and diminished restrictions from Governor “Over Reach” DeWine, this year’s Memorial Day parade and ceremony looked a lot more like the traditional service which is actually done very well in my former home town of Harrison.  For those of us who really understand …

Old Guy Rant: Vaccines a patriotic duty?

Political column by Franklin County resident Larry Wiwi Over the past couple of weeks you likely heard commander-in-thief Biden excoriating unvaccinated Americans and telling us getting vaccinated is our patriotic duty.  I won’t give advice or an opinion about getting the vaccine since that is your personal decision to be made with or without your …

Old Guy Rant: Democrats and trains

Political Column by FC resident Larry Wiwi Ever notice how Democrats are always pushing for passenger trains?  Obama made multiple efforts to get trains built and there are two of his shining examples we can talk about – the streetcar in Cincinnati and the high-speed rail being built (sort of) in California.  Any fifth grade …

Old Guy Rant: Hard choices for conservatives

Political column by FC resident Larry Wiwi Though we are still 18 months away from the mid-term elections conservative voters need to be thinking now about the hard choice we have to make:  Support the Republican Party or not? Given the current insanity promulgated by the commander-in-thief – open borders, green new deal, anti-XL pipeline …

Old Guy Rant: Biden’s lies about Second Amendment

Political column by Larry Wiwi, FC resident By now you have heard all sorts of commentary on Biden’s executive orders and attempts to take a couple more steps toward the Democrat’s goal of disarming American citizens, but just in case you read the NYT, or listen to CNN, here are some very simple, verifiable facts …

Old Guy Rant: The hardest political lesson

Political column by Larry Wiwi, a FC resident I am a political junkie, it all started as I anxiously watched the results of the Nixon/Humphrey contest in 1968 and I have been hooked ever since, including taking about every political science and American history class that U.C offered during my college years.  In all those …

Old Guy Rant: Dear Indiana Sen. Raatz and Rep. Lyness …

A Political Column by Larry Wiwi, a Franklin County resident Dear Indiana Senator Raatz and Representative Lyness, I do appreciate the updates you regularly send regarding the work you are doing in the State of Indiana – budget, education, covid, power balancing among the state government branches, etc., it is important work and glad you …

Old Guy Rant: Need to pressure state representatives and senators

A political column by Franklin County resident Larry Wiwi After barely 60 days in office, commander-in-thief Biden has managed to spend about 2 trillion dollars, kill thousands of energy jobs, dramatically raise the price of gas and creates a security and health crisis on our southern border – all things every Trump voter knew would …

Old Guy Rant: Democrats crapping on us all

Political Column by Larry Wiwi, Franklin County resident The Democrat party has done a remarkable job of convincing half or more of US voters that they are the party of civil rights and the “little guy,” especially those on the lower end of the earnings spectrum, so remarkable in fact that Josef Goebbels would be …

Old Guy Rant: Passing of a friend

A Political Column by FC resident Larry Wiwi As everyone in the political world now knows, Rush Limbaugh passed away earlier this week and there have been hundreds of tributes already written but if you can stand one more, hopefully mine will be a little different. Like so many millions of listeners, I consider Rush …