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 →