“Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.” Now add this, “Many of those who r...Read More
Last week the conservative news media was playing a story about a woman who was voting for Obama because he was giving out free cell phones. It sounded unbelievable to me so I looked into it. And ...Read More
I promise to only do politics once a week and never on Facebook (almost) My bumper sticker contribution: My slogan contribution: This election is the Makers vs the Takers...Read More
The Cow and the Ice Cream A story told by a 3rd grade teacher The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching 3rd grade. The last Presidential election was heating up and some of the ...Read More
Circa 1200 in Rothenburg they passed a compulsory tax to build city walls. This was followed by taxes to have city water, sewers and education. This explains the path we have inevitably followed...Read More
“Economic Nationalism is Racism” Harry Binswanger in Forbes Magazine 8/20/2012 “People their products and their services must be judged on the basis of their individual, factual qual...Read More
A website that I have touted before is Bridge Hunter. It is a user developed guide to the historic and interesting bridges in the United States. Kind of a Wikipedia for bridges, it is very popular...Read More
Every medieval town we saw on our European trip had a cathedral and a clock tower. In one of the towns, probably Bern, I realized that time used to be a monopoly of the church. They had the bell i...Read More