Letters to My Granddaughter, No. 88

By | August 9, 2024

[August 9, 2024]  I left home at 17 and I was gone before my High School graduation because I was enrolled in college and taking classes, a couple of weeks before my friends walked across the High School graduation stage at home in Abilene, Texas.  I imagined in my mind my friends with their parents hugging each other, taking… Read More »

Tim Walz Abandoned His Soldiers [Updated]

By | August 8, 2024

[August 9, 2024]  It has just been revealed that Tim Walz falsely claimed he carried weapons “in war” in a resurfaced clip that JD Vance blasted this week as another example of the Democrat vice presidential candidate using “stolen valor.” https://nypost.com/2024/08/08/us-news/tim-walz-falsely-claimed-he-carried-weapons-in-war-in-resurfaced-clip-absolutely-false/ [August 8, 2024]  It appears that Vice President-select Tim Walz abandoned his unit’s Soldiers before their deployment… Read More »

A Mental Map of the World

By | August 6, 2024

[August 6, 2024]  As a 13-year-old, I drew my first map of my new town, Little Rock, Arkansas.  Comparatively, the city of LR was huge, with large streets, tall buildings, and many people going somewhere.  The map was not to scale or in an accurate perspective.  My map showed the streets I walked when going to school, to… Read More »

Letters to My Granddaughter No. 87

By | August 5, 2024

[August 5, 2024]  There it was again, my yellow-stained 6th-grade Report Card with my end-of-year marks.  I didn’t want to even look at it.  Okay, I had at least one “B,” and I think that was in “recess.”  And to make it worse for me, one of my parents had to sign off acknowledging my performance.  “You can… Read More »

Hearing on Abortion & Senator John N. Kennedy

By | August 4, 2024

[August 4, 2024]  “Reproductive justice is economic justice.”  This statement is common and infers that abortion improves the lives of the mother, her family, and all of us because it is “justice.”  A counter to this idea, in a hearing on abortion, U.S. Senator John N. Kennedy asks two experts to get to the heart of the abortion… Read More »

Trust in the Medical Establishment Collapses

By | August 3, 2024

[August 3, 2024]   In a remarkable turnaround but not totally unexpected.  A recent survey concludes that the trust in physicians and hospitals collapsed during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The study’s results are shocking because trust in the medical establishment has fallen so quickly and to the lowest ever recorded. Researchers from the Center for Quantitative Health surveyed 443,455 individuals… Read More »