Conversation in a Rural Midwest Barbershop
I live in the rural Midwest. Agriculture is the dominant activity, and most folks live in small towns. In many respects, it is a good place to live. People are mostly decent and hard working. They...
View ArticleWhat Is It Conservatives Are Conserving?
Today’s modern conservatives are emphatic they are right in all things. Their ideology, theology, philosophy, morality, and all other activity is at the highest end of the spectrum of human goodness....
View ArticleJoseph Smith's Forty Wives - Thoughts on Organized Religion
In November of 2014, the Mormon Church officially admitted that its founder, Joseph Smith, had forty wives. While the polygamy of Mormon leader Brigham Young had long been acknowledged, founder and...
View ArticleCelebrating King Verses Burwell
On June 25, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled in the governments’ favor in King versus Burwell. This case sought to undermine and destroy the ACA (Affordable Care Act) on the basis of a very narrow reading...
View ArticleThe Wrong Database for My Taste
In a recent editorial in the Twin City Times newspaper, Lewiston, Maine Mayor Robert E. MacDonald called for the creation of a public database of welfare recipients. As reported in this article on...
View ArticleHere is Why I Support Bernie Sanders
I am supporting Bernie Sanders for President. I am a Progressive, and I have been waiting for the next FDR. I was disappointed by President Obama. He calls himself a Progressive, but Mr. Obama is to...
View ArticleTomorrow I Caucus For Bernie Sanders, Here's Why...
Tomorrow I will be attending the Iowa Caucus for Bernie Sanders. I support the Senator because he is one of us. He is the one candidate who is not a millionaire, and does not have a Super-PAC. He...
View ArticleTo the Faithful O'Reilly Does No Wrong
A Facebook friend made a group comment on a Fox News group she belongs to, and this showed up in my feed. She was lamenting how disappointed she was at Fox’s decision to fire O’Reilly. He was the...
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