Almost bedtime on the eve of the last day of the year. Yes, in a little less than a day, we’ll begin another year… 2014 showed me that life is so much more than something that just happens to us. So, I want to start 2015 clean and clear. The Buddha once said, “Holding onContinue reading “Forgive; don’t forget”
Category Archives: Politics
Elizabeth Warren — The Democratic Party’s Ross Perot of 2016?
Love Elizabeth Warren or hate her…not the point. If Elizabeth Warren enters into the race to become the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party against Hilary Clinton, it will hand an otherwise relatively safe victory for the Democratic Party in 2016 squarely into the hands of the Republican Party. Given the ham-handed behavior of theContinue reading “Elizabeth Warren — The Democratic Party’s Ross Perot of 2016?”
STEM is a stick; STEAM is a source of energy!
So our ability to educate and fully round out our youth has been reduced to a convenient acronym that is another work for a stick… Sad indeed but a growing and pervasive challenge being faced all across the country. We are blessed here in the Lakota School Districts that the water level has not risenContinue reading “STEM is a stick; STEAM is a source of energy!”
E pluribus unum
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” – Barry Goldwater (1964). Wrong idea then. Wrong idea now. Sometimes I get frustrated at the graying of the line between American Exceptionalism and Extremism.Continue reading “E pluribus unum”
The Times They Are A Changing
As my son gets ready to begin his university experience at The Harvard on the Hocking, Ohio University in a couple of weeks and I get prepared to write the big, fat check, I worry for the people his age and ultimately our nation. I watched as the school system here systematically removed music, art,Continue reading “The Times They Are A Changing”
Another Tax! I’m Shocked!
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”. Thomas Jefferson. It is foolhardy to believe that we will ever all feel good about our taxes. It is not something that anyone will ever become completely comfortable with, but there must be some basisContinue reading “Another Tax! I’m Shocked!”
“…Morally Straight”
I am a very proud, tried and true, died-in-the-wool, Adult Volunteer Scout Leader… I am involved at every level of Scouting in my region. I proudly proclaim that I am or have been, Cub Scout Pack Leader; Boy Scout Troop Committee Chair, Vice Chair; District Leadership Committee – Communications Chair; Newsletter Adviser for my Lodge in Order ofContinue reading ““…Morally Straight””
I have a dream…
I have a dream… And in my dream, in a town somewhere, in a High School like most any other, it is early in the morning on the first day of the school year… All of the schools’ students and staff are gathered in a darkened gymnasium and the mood is that of a pepContinue reading “I have a dream…”
They just weren’t thinking and now too many of us will remember him that way…
I felt the same way last evening watching Clint Eastwood at the Republican National Convention as I did the last time I saw Frank Sinatra in concert. Old Blue Eyes was forgetting the order of the show, he was forgetting his words… it was a mess. There were moments of grace, greatness and brilliance, butContinue reading “They just weren’t thinking and now too many of us will remember him that way…”
“Authentic Frontier Gibberish”
Over the past few days, weeks and months, as I’ve been listening to our political discourse spin, bend, distort and even fabricate daily soundbites used by each party to beat each other about the head and shoulders, I have come to know that the absolute official language of these United States of America is mostContinue reading ““Authentic Frontier Gibberish””
Why Eye Write 