The New York Times carried an op-ed piece today on the questionable practice of “hydro-fracking” to extract natural gas. Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposed new rules for drilling for natural gas on federal and Indian lands. The new … Continue reading
I was talking to a minister today who noted that the year Social Security was enacted in this country in 1935, the average life span for a white American was 62.9 years. (You couldn’t collect Social Security until you were … Continue reading
Catching up on the end of the tour… The “Georgia On My Mind Tour” (original, huh) included stops in Thomasville, Albany, Columbus, and Ft. Oglethorpe. During one of the TV news interviews, our young son Jonathan told the reporter he … Continue reading
We started the Georia On My Mind Tour in Thomasville where our Jonathan got in a spirited “sandlot soccer game” at Remington Park over the weekend. We then did a downtown whistle-stop event. Three TV news crews filmed. One of … Continue reading
The campaign rolls on… We were interviewed by the newspaper at Appalachacolla, Florida. I told the editor that in Grand Junction, Colorado, we researched a two-story hospital (Marillac Hospital) staffed by volunteer doctors, volunteer nurses and other volunteer citizenry who … Continue reading
The campaign rolls on… In the last week we appeared in the Northwest Signal Daily News, which is circulated throughout Northwest Florida. I was asked about offshore drilling in a newspaper office not far from the Gulf of Mexico. I … Continue reading
Catching up on the last couple weeks (blog was down)… We launched on our next tour, heading south in our 1978 motorhome. A couple spark plug wires shook loose around Cincinnati and we were cresting hills on I-75 at 40 mph, with everyone … Continue reading
Catching up… This last week I gave a talk at the Consistent Life Ethic 25th Anniversary Conference just outside of D.C. I said that I saw abortion, global warming, world hunger, one billion people living in slums without clean water … Continue reading
Busy week… A story about the campaign ran in the Bluffton News (circ. 2,000) yesterday. Well if you don’t carry Bluffton, you’re not going to carry the country. The story noted that I was being billed as “average Joe the … Continue reading
We met with Becky and Ben Gambrell this week. For three years they were missionaries in Brazil, currently one of the poorest countries in the world. The Gambrells said in Brazil there was little in the way of medicine and … Continue reading