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Articles by Robert Whale
Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
When old age asks the new year for...
By Robert Whale • December 31, 2022 5:30 am

One of the important lessons the dawning of each new year has taught me is the futility of making New…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Thanksgiving and the Whale kitchen’s eternal warmth |...
By Robert Whale • November 20, 2022 5:30 am

Looking today at the North Auburn home in which I grew up fills me with wonder.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
The ‘ignoranting’ of Americans in the age of...
By Robert Whale • November 12, 2022 5:30 am

Many sweeping generalizations stalk our land today, making no distinctions between diverse people and institutions, but lumping them into one…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
The cost we pay for having a marketplace...
By Robert Whale • October 21, 2022 10:40 am

Ah, the internet, the internet, let us count the many blessings of the internet.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
We all need to acknowledge the devils in...
By Robert Whale • September 16, 2022 1:30 pm

I read somewhere years ago — I have forgotten where — that if a person cannot relish the puncturing of…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
My fellow Americans, we need a political middle...
By Robert Whale • July 29, 2022 5:30 am

For the poor beleaguered voter in the coming elections, I offer this piece of advice — beware of the stealth…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
There’s nothing partisan about recognizing the truth |...
By Robert Whale • July 22, 2022 5:30 am

Nobody cares. Nobody is watching.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Here’s the supreme irony behind so-called states’ rights...
By Robert Whale • July 16, 2022 5:30 am

Many crack-brained ideas are riding the winds in this country, noxious seeds bound for the ears of sympathetic legislators.

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To prevent future violence, we need to learn what’s in us | Whale’s Tales
To prevent future violence, we need to learn...
By Robert Whale • July 2, 2022 5:30 am

Fresh pools of blood, tears and fury.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Seems we didn’t see what we saw, or...
By Robert Whale • June 22, 2022 8:30 am

Like others lately, I have been avidly following the Jan. 6 Committee’s hearings into the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
So much in me, good and bad, I...
By Robert Whale • June 18, 2022 6:30 am

This Sunday, like many folks across this nation will do and each in their own way, I will remember my…

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Police lines set up outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. (Public domain photo courtesy of VOA/Wikipedia)
The search for common ground in our national...
By Robert Whale • June 10, 2022 10:47 am

Late last month, a small Texas city joined an ever-expanding list of cities and sites that none of them ever…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
The frustrating clash between reality and conspiracies |...
By Robert Whale • June 4, 2022 11:30 am

I have thinking lately about goofy, patently absurd notions.

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