I am painting a new third floor addition to a house just up the street. A young couple has added this rather large addition for the wife’s parents when they visit — with their nine adopted children! The daughter told … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2017
In Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book The Bully Pulpit, she notes that one of Theodore Roosevelt’s biggest challenges was confronting the “malignancy” of big money in politics. In a scathing NY Times editorial about this at the time, the paper suggested that … Continue reading
With the heightened focus on Russia of late, I picked up an old book in the Bluffton University Library titled: The Soviet Cultural Offensive. Author Frederick Barghoorn writes that when your average Russian citizen is asked a political question: “Feigned … Continue reading
With Betsy DeVos now in as Education Secretary, all eyes are on charter schools. (Or at least most eyes.) With Curtis Bowers, however, not so much. Mr. Bowers is a former principal of a high school in Clarkston, Washington. During … Continue reading