Collecting My Thoughts

I’ve been looking for a link, but haven’t found it.  While I was listening to Michael Medved today (conservative talk show host on pop cultu...

“I was raised in a Republican, conservative home and usually voted the way my parents voted but all that changed when I began working in the...

See Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4 for the story about why I was living on my grandparents’ farm in 1958, the summer between my fresh...

“I grew up in communist Cuba. I remember standing in lines to get food and my mother holding her little card that allowed for our rations. ...

“Because most cuts of turkey provide valuable amounts of protein, turkey is often regarded as a high-protein food. Skinned turkey breast wil...

Dan Flynn of the American Spectator observes in an e-mail, November 19, 2018 I went with Oliver North to one of his speeches in Orange ...

This time the "disappeared" may be the result of drug and gang violence rather than Marxism. "Some 37,000 people in Mexico ...

The New York Times has now issued a formal correction of the error in the North Korea editorial it published last week. The Times correct...

Acosta wasn’t asking a question at the press conference that ended in a shouting match; he was grandstanding and giving an opinion.  Eventua...

“Were I to launch into a sermon on the upcoming presidential election, my email box would short-circuit from the deluge of opinions many w...

“Saying you believe in science rather than religion is like saying you believe in screwdrivers rather than democracy. Science is a tool and ...

One day C.H. Spurgeon was walking through the countryside with a friend. As they strolled along, the evangelist noticed a barn with a weathe...

“The annual Fall Meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which took place in Baltimore earlier this week, was a...

Charles Aznavour wrote "Yesterday when I was young," my favorite recording of Roy Clark, who died this week at 85. Clark was a pop...

“This is not a concession speech,” Ms. Abrams said, delivering a fiery speech to supporters saying the voting process was poisoned from the...

After riding four miles on the cycle at the Lifetime Fitness center I switched to the treadmill.  Because it was Saturday, it’s a bit more c...

From my November 25, 2013 blog entry. The U.S. government has just passed a new law called: "The Affordable Turkey Act..." decla...

This article was published in the journal Electoral Studies in 2014, and the authors wrote about their findings in the Washington Post, whic...

Hurricanes, blizzards and fires—apparently the globe has never had them  before Europeans landed on the shores of North America, the land of...

I pretty much ignored the accusations about Robert Mueller and sexual assault. I’m so old fashioned I think a white man in government is inn...