Collecting My Thoughts

Pot Dodd accuses Kettle Madoff "The SEC, already faulted in connection with the collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. and Lehman Brothers Holdi...

Too much too soon and too little too late That's FDR in the 1930s. He extended the Great Depression through government interference and ...

The Coming Depression Instead of calling it The Great Depression which was jointly widened, deepened and lengthened by Presidents Hoover and...

All in the Family Today a friend was explaining to me an educator's theory (I've forgotten her name) of class and education: the low...

Keeping track Some things are just easier on paper. Over a year ago I found this journal in the freebie box at church, "God's Littl...

Christmas weddings and frozen car doors There must be some women having second thoughts about a Christmas wedding--or maybe it's Spring...

How's your state doing on freedom of speech? Nearly three-quarters of colleges and universities maintain unconstitutional speech codes, ...

WAAANNA White and Asian Americans Need Not Apply. Although in California, it appears that Asian is a minority in a state where they are pro...

The Mayflower Compact In modern English: "In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are under-written, the loyal subjects of our dread s...

Why do people do these? This must be the longest meme on the Internet, and I'm guessing there used to be more, because who would quit at...

Happy New Year Yes, it's a bit early, but I want you to click over and read the University of Nebraska at Lincoln Extension website, by ...

Christmas shopping finished It will be low key this year. Usually we've made a major gift to the children, but this year it will be a m...

The Network Usually I don't care for anything Chris Matthews does, but I think this MSNBC video of the Blago-Obama links is pretty good....

Obama’s solution for corruption in government The Blago story moves closer to BO with Rahm Emanuel's involvement (although I would be su...

Why do they think they can make automobiles? “The waste highlighted in this report is only a fraction of the more than $385 billion the fede...

Putting political pieces on the board the Chicago Way Chicago Tribune writer John Kass writes on December 12 that Jimmy DeLeo is the real Il...

Small business bears the brunt of regulatory costs "The research finds (2005) that the cost of federal regulations totals $1.1 trillion...

Serbs say he's forgotten his roots Rod Blagojevich, whose first name is Milorad, son of Radissa, is a second-generation Serb-American. ...

I didn't smell anything

The Jacksons vs. Obama Remember last summer when Jesse Jackson didn't have his mike off and said he hoped for an Obama castration? Lite...