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Monday, August 23rd, 2010“The class assignment for the eighth graders deep in rural Appalachia was to stand up guilt-free about extolling the dialect spoken in their local mountain “hollers.” Sound forth; never mind the “hillbilly” stigma that can especially haunt teenagers. On a visit a decade ago to Ellenboro, W.Va., I delighted to hear Kyre Bartz tell a [...]
Judge Says Constitution Protects Right to Lie About Purple Heart | Threat Level | Wired.com
Monday, July 26th, 2010Now this is an odd issue. As a writer I tend to be absolutist where the First Amendment is concerned, but as a US Marine, I respect any and all attempts to preserve the integrity of our Service Men and Women. I think I would have erred on protecting the Services but perhaps have moderated [...]
Ford introduces new — and untraditional — Explorer
Monday, July 26th, 2010“…there is also a trend away from the McMansions and big vehicles of the 1990s, when people measured their wealth by home and car size. ”It’s a different world. People are much more thoughtful about their consumption, and the new Explorer is in line with that,”….” The quote above is from this article. It is so [...]
How Failure Became an Option – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
Friday, June 11th, 2010This is a quote from this article. Compelling! “Here, this cancer is killing a vast and diverse marine ecosystem, and the best petroleum engineers of the day seem helpless. As “Apollo 13” showed, we don’t do helpless. But with this spill, we are helpless — by deliberate design.” via How Failure Became an Option – [...]
Backward, Into The Future – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
Monday, June 7th, 2010Compelling!!!! Backward, Into The Future – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com.
The Democrats Abortion Dilemma
Thursday, November 12th, 2009I am keenly aware in our country that we have an enormous amount of dishonesty in the abortion-rights debate and I want to address some of them in this post while discussing the impact this conversation is having on the attempt to address the challenges in our health-care system. People who are pro-life need to [...]
Insurance and Socialism
Sunday, October 18th, 2009I have a number of friends who are all up in arms over our inevitable slide into socialism just because we are trying to make healthcare more accessible and that got me thinking about definitions and the power of words. Important note, a number of these folks are in insurance and have enjoyed considerable success. [...]
Socialism, Free Markets, Buzz Words, and the Power of Language
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009I have friends and family who are freaking out over the health care initiatives moving through congress and which our President supports. The most interesting part of the dialogue is the fear and horror at the thought that these are socialist and they have even succeeded in demonizing the term socialist to the point, that, [...]
We celebrate that Constitution secures rights today
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Copyright the Chillicothe Gazette For four long months in the summer of 1787, the delegates of the Constitutional Convention debated a document that eventually would become the U.S. Constitution. On Sept. 17 of that year, 39 of the delegates signed the document that took so much work to draft and ratify. As part of our [...]
Why I have a house in Cleveland and a job in Texas
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Copyright Business Week Texas, like many of today’s other economic bright spots, never had a housing bubble or bust. Its job market has remained relatively strong, in part because it is a major oil and health-care hub. “The clear winner is Texas,” Johnson said. “People really see Texas as a place for good economic prospects.”
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