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 →
We talked to a woman recently who said she and her husband adopted a baby with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. It’s their only child, and she said the girl has been a tremendous blessing. She added that people will sometimes abort when there is … Continue reading →
In our travels, we recently came across a Korean War veteran. He talked at length about his war expreiences there and was concerned about the mounting tension there now as well. It’s a complex situation geo-politcally. While doing some research, … Continue reading →
The New York Times carried a piece on Chester, Vermont, recently. This small quaint town, like a number of small quaint towns in Vermont, is fighting a “Dollar Store” going in — because they’re worried about changing the character of the town. … Continue reading →