Collecting My Thoughts

 Countries that have tried (by force or election) socialism, have failed. Countries that have tried (by force or persuasion) Green Energy ha...

Bill Gates is the biggest "farmer" in the country--owns millions of acres of farmland rented to other farmers. Controls the seeds....

Currently, estimates are that 15 percent of all food in the United States is produced in a metropolitan area, said Mike Hogan, educator with...

I hope that little guy is in the driver's seat just for the photo. Looks about 8 years old. Small family farms, averaging 231 acres,...

Nancy Pelosi has promised (Jan. 28) that the health care bill written by lobbyists and leftists that Americans don't want will be snuck ...

This morning I went to Kohl's (15% off for seniors) to buy a replacement for my Nikes. This would be my third pair in 2009--having disco...

Today's new word--less unaffordable What ever happened to "affordable?" Now it's "less unaffordable" "It i...

This is rich Obama has noticed the rich farmers getting government subsidies. Duh! Line by line he's going through the budget. Maybe he...

The summer of 1929 The Great Depression is generally dated as beginning with the crash of the stock market in the fall of 1929, but as I...

Thursday Thirteen A week ago we returned from a fabulous trip to Ireland, the ancestral home of about 45 million North Americans. Here's...

3823 We're fat, lazy and addicted, but we can control the climate This morning I was listening to a radio interview with Governor Stri...

3623 Visit to a stinking, smelly town The rush to biofuels is quite foolish in my opnion because to use an even more precious commodity th...

3549 A common error Today I was reading a book I keep in the bathroom for just such occasions and came across the sentence, "By appl...

3507 Deere John Earnings are up at John Deere--a wet finger in the wind senses alternative fuel--which means new demand for large farm eq...

3487 My agenda for the green groups In June, I outlined the changes I'd like to see so we could have a cleaner, healthier, more produ...