Collecting My Thoughts

Let's ruin long term care We've had a "long term care" policy for over 10 years. It isn't cheap, but even a month in ...

Today's new word is MELIORIST The book review in today's WSJ is of "Soul of a People" by David A. Taylor. The reviewer wr...

Today's new word is--amazing Voice technology is certainly improving. http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal I t...

Home made soup As soon as I read her blog about pea soup (and said yuk) I went to the kitchen and made a big pot of broccoli soup, one of my...

Congress has promised AMTRAK schedules for the automobile industry and converter box guidance for the healthcare industry. General Motors an...

Embracing socialism And Obama. I'm watching a socialist Brian Moore argue the case for socialism with a Brit subbing on Cavuto's sh...

Air travel has never been safer, but . . . We can count on more regulations. It is a tragedy that 50 people died in last week's crash ne...

1,073 Pages No time to read it, yet the President had time to dawdle over signing it. Took the Mrs. out for dinner to a swanky Chicago resta...

What you can do with a degree in literature Or theater. Or art history. Or psychology. First find a job to pay the rent with the government ...

Elderly hardest hit by Katrina Why Mayor Nagin was never brought up on charges of criminal negligence I don't know; the people of New Or...

A new roof for my son You may remember that Hurricane Ike blew through Columbus in September. It took a large part of my son's roof. H...

Caterpillar employees are not fooled by Obama Elizabeth Meinecke reports that Obama tried to cajole Illinois Republican Aaron Schock into vo...

Late for church twice in one day! We have a prayer team that meets with the pastors at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning. This is perfect for me--I...

Good politics is bad history and bad economics It's a toss up. The demeaning and foot shuffling dance of the United States abroad by Bid...

If she pays her taxes can she join the cabinet? "2001 Stanford Law Grad Cristina Schultz (now Cristina Warthen after her marriage to Da...

Another Bridge to Nowhere "Muzzammil Hassan came to America from Pakistan 25 years ago. He became a successful banker in Buffalo, New Y...

Clinton's legacy--welfare reform of 1996 The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was more succe...

Yummy cupcakes and other good things Alisha and Angie have a cupcake business . If I lived near them in Utah, I would certainly buy a box f...

Bush spent a lot, now it's my turn What is this? Anything you can do I can do better? Obama says not to criticize him for his outrageous...

Australian bush fires Australia is a continent--it's huge. All of Europe would fit within its borders with room to spare, and it's a...