On my recent campaign tour down Old Rte. 30, I stumped in Cairo, Ohio. (Something I’ve done in hundreds and hundreds of towns over the years.) Cairo is a small, rural town made up, primarily, of working class folks. I … Continue reading →
What you’re looking at here is a tremendous moral issue with significant spiritual ramifications for most of us. This is a “confinement farm” that has become state-of-the-art in American agriculture these days — representing the far end of the “greed … Continue reading →
Corn is the most produced crop in America, coming in at about $24 billion a year. There are a significant amount of U.S. government subsidies for growing corn. This, for one, creates an unfair advantage against small farmers in other … Continue reading →
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists kept the Doomsday Clock at an ominous two minutes to doomsday a few days ago. This, it was noted, is as close to doomsday that we’ve been since the Cold War. I was recently … Continue reading →
Buckeye Back Roads Tour cont… Stopped at the Spring Street Coffee House in St. Marys, Ohio. Owner Roger Beckett said he was a “moderate” when it came to politics. That is, he said he was basically a realist who believed … Continue reading →
I talked with Matt Arnold today. He and his family were missionaries in Chihua Chihua, Mexico, for 17 years. They worked with indigenous people in the rural areas there. He said it’s not “African poverty,” but the poverty there is … Continue reading →
I took our sons Joseph and Jonathan to a football practice in North Creek, Ohio, last night. Joseph played split end and had a couple nice catches. Jonathan, the youngest one, was like a little Brian Uhrlacher (Bear’s middle linebacker) … Continue reading →
After finishing our last tour, we have stopped at a farm in western Ohio. Here we’ve been involved with most every aspect of farming: baling hay, helping with a big garden, feeding the animals (cows, chickens, sheep…). … Continue reading →
Catching up on our last week in Ohio… We’ve come to farm country near the mid-western border of Ohio for a pit stop. This afternoon I was out in a barn putting up bales of hay… Earlier in … Continue reading →
Our Virginia Common Wealth Tour continues… We headed out of Verona and on to rural Buchanan, Virginia. We stopped at the Buchanan Quick Stop (that didn’t seem all that quick ). A slow country music song … Continue reading →