At the Memorial Day Parade in Bluffton yesterday, I took this photo. Most of these guys are Vietnam Vets (there was just one WWII veteran at the event). These guys’ sacrifices can’t be quantified, but it can be honored. And … Continue reading
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While the other campaigns were doing the $1,000 a plate fundraisers, and such, I was doing a $1.29 McDouble and passing out campaign literature in the Ottawa, Ohio, McDonald’s one Friday night recently. It was also here that I met … Continue reading
I visited this War Memorial in Spencerville, Ohio, the day Trump talked from the Pentagon. We should weigh our words soberly in this area, and our actions even more soberly. –photo by Joe Yesterday Trump, with great fanfare, spoke from … Continue reading
Last Saturday President Trump said he was pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia. His administration’s contention is that Russia is breaking the treaty by building and testing a new class of weapons. The treaty bans ground … Continue reading
With Trump’s new proposed Space Force, we stand at the brink of yet another Cold War arena. The book Beyond the Cold War notes that the U.S.’s military pre-eminence in the world is unmatched (the U.S. currently spends more on … Continue reading
‘De-nuclearization,’ as this term has been coined by politicians and pundits, of North Korea, and the Korean Peninsula in general, has been in the news regularly of late. What hasn’t been in the news, and what was classified as “top … Continue reading
In trying to understand more about the U.S.’s history with China, I picked up the book: China’s America (The Chinese View of the United States 1900-2000) by Jing Li. The author notes that a consistent thread in our relationship is … Continue reading
The NY Times reported that China’s Communist Party has cleared the way for President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely by announcing it intends to abolish term limits. Jinping’s agenda revolves around: a global infrastructure plan; reorganizing the military; … Continue reading
To gain more of an overall historic perspective on the current North Korea situation, I picked up the book: The Korean War by Mathew Ridgway. Neither side, the North (with aid from China and Russia), or the South (primarily aided … Continue reading
I recently went to a talk at Franciscan University by a priest who had done missions work in Siberia for 20 years. He said sound spirituality is putting the other person’s needs before your own. That would seem to fly … Continue reading