Collecting My Thoughts

No vegetables, but I had two at breakfast. I attended a noon lecture at the veterinary college at Ohio State at noon, so was a bit hungry ...

The Mayor protests giving DC children a chance at a good education with DC scholarships (vouchers), or even a life. And he wants statehood. ...

No Obama Czars lost their heads in the budget deal. They were either promoted or already gone. Are Republicans this easy to fool? Unfortunat...

"Two personalities inhabit New York Times columnist David Brooks, who, like Christopher Buckley, is a friend. One personality is that o...

Twelve years ago, Milton Friednman discussed with Peter Robinson of Hoover Institution (Stanford) the basics of libertarianism , and the cab...

Thomas Sowell suggests Congress start with entitlements for the rich. If you saw John Stossel's program on Fox last week, he suggested ...

$38.5 billion in cuts is peanuts and meaningless. Dropping the funding for NPR and Planned Parenthood would have meant nothing for their bud...

and then jumped off the straw donkey. Here's a long scholarly paper to describe the goal of protesting the war in Iraq--to get Democrats...

This morning I was reading an Indianapolis Star blog and the writer said she'd been through 5 midwestern states, and Indiana got the pri...

Here's another item I purchased at Marc's that sounds better than it really is--Psalms and Proverbs in the New Living Translation. ...

My summer sandals are about 10 years old; attempts to replace them have failed, with the new ones tossed after a few wearings. Everyone is ...

This morning a woman born in China (now a U.S. citizen) told me her church group had volunteered at a local food pantry. We discussed our c...

Yesterday it was 85 in Columbus--broke a record for that date. Today it's 74 early a.m., but will cool this afternoon with the rain. Af...

My husband's sister lives in Tustin, his brother in Huntington Beach; both communities are vibrant and thriving, but moreso matched up w...

It's a bit like watching an accident. I usually clean up my desk or the kitchen after watching an episode. Today's ( Hoarding: Bur...

Let's hear it for Representative Paul Ryan who takes us on the Path to Prosperity. ". . . it cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from th...

In Augusta. At the Master's. Good.

And there are over 60 Islamic or Arab states. So please. Don't give me that nonsense about you not being anti-Jewish, or that antisemi...

I Googled that line to see if I could get the full text of the Badger State Bungle story that appeared in the WSJ today, and "Democracy...

Some things are better; most worse. We flew out of Columbus on March 30 at 6:05 a.m., to change planes in Houston and land in Santa Ana abo...