During the month of September, I was interviewed for a TV news piece with the local Fox News affiliate WLIO. The reporter asked me what my chances were. I responded with Ohio’s state motto: “All things are possible with God.” … Continue reading →
For the last month, a couple friends and I have been working on our campaign vehicle. It’s a 1984 converted Midas Motor Home. The roof had a leak, the carburetor had to be rebuilt, and there needed to be some … Continue reading →
I recently did an interview for the local newspaper with our daughter Sarah, who went to Nicaragua with a group of Franciscan University students. She said the most poignant moment happened for her early on. The group had just gotten … Continue reading →
In the last couple weeks, I continue with a relatively big house painting project (Joe the Painter, cont.)… I’m also continuing to do interviews for my wife Liz’s magazines. Of particular note is an interview I did with a 13-year-old … Continue reading →
In the last couple months, I’ve found myself (as usual): multi-tasking. I’ve been out to campaign on the back roads of Ohio several times. I’ve been working on a big house painting project in Bluffton (“Joe the Painter”). Liz (the … Continue reading →
I had a “political science session” last night with my daughter Sarah who has just finished up her sophomore year at Franciscan University. The session shed some key light on an Obama administration’s transgender related bathroom “directive” that had gone … Continue reading →
Jimmy Carter and Dr. Norman Borluag, who helped bring a “Green Revolution” to India and Pakistan in the early 1970s by increasing their rice and other food grain production, began a similar grassroots movement among small farmers in Africa. The … Continue reading →
I was just reading today in Harry Truman’s Where The Buck Stops book about his reflections on President Lincoln. Truman noted that Lincoln, as a youth, not only worked on his parent’s family farm, but he was also hired out … Continue reading →
I was just reading part of the book: Soviet Foreign Policy Since World War II by Alvin Rubinstein. The author suggests that: “…Soviet disarmament policy reveals that Moscow has exploited the theme as a means of compensating for military and … Continue reading →
I recently interviewed a woman who went to Haiti as part of a Mission Possible team. [Mission Possible is a Christian humanitarian aid agency.] Her impression shortly after landing there: “I’m not sure what Dante’s Seven Circles of Hell are, … Continue reading →