A news report today explained some of Ivanka Trump’s clothing line is made in Chinese factories where the average worker earns $62 a week. That’s it. My daughter Sarah recently went on a missions trip to Haiti where they make … Continue reading →
An American aircraft carrier is steaming toward North Korea. In the face of a UN Security Council resolution banning test missile launches, North Korea continues to defy that. It’s a high stakes geopolitical chess match. That is as we move … Continue reading →
I just heard an NPR piece that said Donald Trump is on a par (pun intended) to be the most prolific of all the golfing presidents, and there have been many. (Truman used to wear his golf shoes in the … Continue reading →
There was a gang shooting a couple blocks from our home in Steubenville the other night. [We live near the border of a pretty hardscrabble Rust Belt area here. Let’s just say it isn’t Mar-a-Lago.] A teenage boy was killed … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
Some notes from my research the past few weeks: China has recently allocated some $360 billion dollars for the development of more green energy. Meanwhile, Scott Pruitt — who apparently has close ties to the fossil fuels industry — has … Continue reading →
President Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday. Trump, obviously, is not the first president to try and tackle the Israeli/Palestinian issue. In the book: Off the Record (The Private papers of Harry S. Truman), I was reading … Continue reading →