Yet more Buckeye Back Road stumping… In Van Wert, Ohio, we stopped at old Bailey’s Restaurant downtown to put up a campaign flier. While having coffee there, I looked up to see a man who appeared to be in his … Continue reading →
More from our “Buckeye Back Roads” stumping… In Cavett, Ohio (pop. a cluster of 10 houses), a guy with a paint brush in hand and paint stains on his jeans was standing in a doorway. I approached, smiled and said: “As … Continue reading →
Our “Buckeye Back Roads Tour” continues… The following are a couple vignettes from the past several weeks: In a park in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, during a Little League Baseball game, I was passing out campaign cards between innings when one middle aged man … Continue reading →
We’ve been doing some ‘Buckeye Back Roads Stumping’ throughout Ohio of late, putting up fliers and passing out campaign cards. It’s our answer to the Super PAC ads and multi-million dollar big Party budgets. This week… I stumped in … Continue reading →
To much hoopla, we just landed another vehicle on Mars in the early morning hours today — to the tune of $2.5 billion. Meanwhile on this planet, one billion people don’t have access to clean drinking water. Many die each … Continue reading →
For a school lesson yesterday, my son Jonathan, 9, and I looked up “eagles” in our World Book Encyclopedia. That’s right, we didn’t ‘Google’ it, we looked it up. And there it was, with big pictures of eagles and everything. … Continue reading →
Some thoughts in the aftermath of the movie theatre shooting in Aurora, Colorado, early this morning… It happened at a Batman movie titled: Dark Knight Rises. The real shooting erupted during a shooting scene in the movie. As of late … Continue reading →
There was an AP article today reporting that Hillary Clinton is in the country of Laos. In some foreign affairs research about Laos, I learned that we dropped two million tons of bombs on this country during the Vietnam War … Continue reading →
The year 2011 saw the most natural disasters worldwide in recorded history. And we’re on a tract to maybe best that this year… While record setting wildfires rage out in the West in this country, the Midwest and East Coast just … Continue reading →
The Senate is weighing a bill that would pull some subsidies from farmers, cutting about $5 billion from the Federal Budget annually. The genesis for farm subsidies came during the Great Depression and were safety nets for small farmers to … Continue reading →