CREATING A CONFLICT BETWEEN PLURIBUS AND UNUM (…where do religious liberties end…and constitutional rights begin?) If we recall correctly the State of Indiana, at one time, was a hotbed of Khu Klux Klan activity and membership rivaling anything to be
FRIENDSHIPS (…have no metrics) Those who follow these commentaries may have noted that any elements of introspection which occasionally pop up in them…are mostly expressed as philosophy on wry. That’s not a deliberate superficiality on our part but, perhaps, simply
SOMETIMES…THROWING A MONKEY WRENCH (…doesn’t necessarily screw up the works…) The recent uproar over freshman senator Cotton’s tough-worded letter to Iran’s Supreme Ayatollah (co-signed by forty eight other Republican senators) may not really be the act of throwing a monkey
IN THE CHAPTERS OF LIFE’S BOOK… (…certain friends make these a great read…) An old friend passed away yesterday after a long bout of illness. We were the last two of five “dust brothers”, Stan, Roy, Joe, Erwin, and me…from
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FRIENDLY SKIES…GONE? (…gone to flim-flamming…every one) It’s been a while since we tried to make any kind of travel plans. Apparently a much longer time than we realized since we last made any kind of air
AT THE MORNING STAR OF OUR AMERICAN REVOLUTION (…an account of a journey into the wilderness of Kentucky in the Fall of 1775) We’re pausing here to set aside our usual commentaries about the issues and concerns of our world
GROWING STORM CLOUDS (for a possible nuclear war…) Prime Minister Yetanyahu’s recent address to Congress on Israel’s concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, may be correct from his perspectives, but they ignore an even greater threat in the region…one which makes
DON’T AGITATE THOSE EXTRATERRESTRIALS… (…they could be meaner and more powerful…than us) There are serious ongoing debates concerning our efforts to seek out or discover signs of life as we know it…beyond our little world we call Earth. For a
BUDGETS, BUDGETS EVERYWHERE… (…and always printed in red ink) The President recently sent a budget proposal for the coming fiscal year to Congress for some four trillion dollars…and that’s just for one year’s spending. Talk about being the world’s Daddy