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Billie Blair's article about the local protest in Pratt Kansas included Pat Schwarts's Gandhi quote:  "Make injustice visible....

Memorial Day is just around the corner, but for many Americans its purpose is forgotten.  For them, it is a celebration of Summer's arri...

  Search for Accuracy Recently I came upon this statistic:  "Internationally the U.S. ranks 125th for literacy.  Fifty four percent of ...

 It is no wonder that I have run out of space for proper storage in my closets and cupboards.  The explanation is that I save too much, and ...

  Harry Reasoner Those of you who follow my blog know my respect for Walter Cronkite, who is generally regarded as the Greatest News Caster ...

   I have quoted Albert Einstein's remark about the importance of reading to young children, and when asked what else he would suggest, ...

Paris Monument after WW II    I brought little previous knowledge about tariffs to this blog.  In fact, I was so inadequately informed that ...

As those of you who regularly follow my blog know, I often include Presidents and other important men and women who have served our Nation i...

 I understand that people today are reluctant to sign their names to opinions in today's angry world.  I have blogged in the past about ...

  Look at the triangular shape of the image above and imagine the triangle as the three branches of our government--to the left the Legislat...

Do you think these children read Aesop's Fables? Emerson Country School, Stafford County, Kansas  It is said that Aesop lived 600 years ...

U.S. National Park Service  I recently came across a reference to the Battle of Bunker Hill, a famous battle in the Colonies' quest for ...

 For those of you who follow this blog, you already know that I often turn to history in an effort to make sense of the present.  However, I...

 When did the idea of 'Every Child Gets a Trophy' become an education idea?  That is not easily answered, but, the emphasis seems pa...

History--Repeats or Rhymes? Recently we were trying to get organized by getting rid of papers no longer worth keeping.  Some of the document...

  Fossils from our yard in Texas When we moved into a new development in Texas, the land had been an unplowed prairie, it's commercial u...

A Tornado over a Reservoir To improve effectiveness of weather warnings, the Weather-Ready National Program was established by the National ...

When I was a child, there had been a tornado, and the local television station covered the destruction heavily.  Interviews of those impacte...

It is difficult to envision the early decades of correspondence of American political communication, when communication relied on newspapers...

  The Constitution is very limited in establishing traditional guidelines for the inauguration, saying only that there should be a taking of...