How Do You Know if You Live in Folkland? Part 2

How do you know if you are in Folkland? If you still don’t lock your door at night, you live in Folkland. Or if you finally started locking it, but miss the good-old-days. And you still leave your keys in the ignition when you get home. If you breakdown along the road and someone stops [...]

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Where is Folkland U.S.A? Part 1

Part 1: Beyond your gated villages, your privacy fences, and your “cannot-and-must-not-ever-break” covenants of your sub-divisions; beyond your several storied apartments where you don’t even know your neighbors, beyond the hustle, bustle, and on-the-go stressful living in the big cities called “Liberalvilles”, there lies a great big beautiful America. This area has several names. One [...]

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America’s Space Program: The Downfall of NASA

“You cannot soar like an eagle, if you are on the ground pecking with the chickens.” Joel Osteen The day after the Fourth of July, a bombshell was dropped on America. THIS BOMBSHELL IS CONCERNED WITH AMERICA’S VERY FUTURE. This threat is not the economy, or the massive debt Obama has built, scary as that [...]

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Afghanistan War: Should General McCrystal Apologize?

HOLD THE PRESSES: Breaking news on the morning of June 21, 2010 is a story about remarks General Stanley McCrystal, general in charge of the War in Afghanistan, said in an interview published in the current Rolling Stone Magazine, not even on the market yet. Mc Crystal criticized General Eikenberry, General Jim Jones, Vice President [...]

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Women’s Struggle for Equal Rights: Cracking the Glass Ceiling, Part 3

Would you go to jail for what you accept as true? Would you be willing to have people treat you like dirt, hit you with nightsticks, spit on you, and otherwise mistreat you because you are standing up for what you believe is right? That is exactly what American women who were advocating women’s suffrage [...]

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Fight for Women’s Rights: Women’s Suffrage Part 2

Women in America have had a long hard struggle to get to where we are today. It is easy for the current generation to think the rights of American women have now has always been true in America. It hasn’t. Even when our founding fathers wrote the Constitution, a few women were trying to get [...]

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A Letter to My Granddaughter on Women’s Rights, Part 1

My granddaughter called asking questions about my childhood memories of my status as a woman in a man’s world. It was for a class project on women’s rights. I answered her questions off the top of my head, but I feel my childhood was atypical of the average American girl growing up in the 1940s [...]

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Great Depression and Now: Is Obama Another FDR, Part 2

President Obama said on 4/14/2010 that even though MANY may not like it, America is a superpower. We may not like it. We may not like it? Good godfry. What in bloody blazes is Obama wishing for our great country. He seems to want America to fall into mediocrity, to lose our greatness, to become [...]

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How Different Is Today’s World from That of the Great Depression?

Political issues such as health care reform have a history and we can start by looking at the vast changes that have taken place over the last 80 years or so. This is going to be a series over some of these top political and social issues that have developed. The America of today is [...]

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The Health Care Law: Is it the First Step to a Dictatorship?

Last Tuesday, President Obama signed into law the Democrat’s Health Bill. It took the rest of the week, but by Thursday late at night, the House passed the last dregs of all the wind-up odds and ends that remained to be done to make this the law of the land. To make this accomplishment, the [...]

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Obama’s Government Health Care Bill: Do or Die Week

RED FLAG = PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES ASAP AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE AGAINST THIS BILL: TO FIND THE PHONE NUMBERS YOU NEED, GO TO Call Congress Now DO NOT WAIT; CALL IMMEDIATELY! This week, starting on March 14, 2010, has been called the “Do or Die Week” as far as passing [...]

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Healthy Living: Controlling Sodium Intake Part 3

When you read how much sodium is in prepared foods, you probably will be shocked. So many products we eat have so much salt added, that it is easy to see why Americans get more salt than is healthy for them. Study the chart below. These are products that I often use from my own [...]

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Healthy Living: Salt Intake, Part 2

Salt’s ability to preserve food was one of the foundations of civilization, and was as important as the discovery of fire and the invention of the wheel to humankind’s development. One of my favorite books as a teenager was, “Below the Salt”, by Thomas Costain, copyright: 1957.  “Time was strangely rolled back 700 years so [...]

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Healthy Living: Government Control of Salt Intake Part 1

Our various governments from State to Federal, are hell-bent on controlling as many aspects of our lives as they can by passing law after law after law. Among other things, individual food selection is especially vulnerable in today’s world. The food police, fat police, fast-food police, chocolate police, condiment police, you name it, all are [...]

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The Economy: Meanwhile Back at the Ranch Part 3, Family C

This is the third part in the series on the struggles of the average American citizen in this recession. (Check blog of 12/16/09 — Economic Issues: “Out in the Trenches for Part 1; and blog of 1/19/10 — Economic Issues: “Folkland Suffering” for Part 2) The massive spending of Washington in the face of the [...]

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Obama’s State of the Union Speech: “THE BIG I”

“Oh, Lord, it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way…”* President Obama’s first State of the Union Speech on January 27, 2010 was simply a regurgitation of his campaign promises he gave before he was elected President in 2008. A few new ideas, such as off-shore drilling, were lost in the minutia [...]

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Democrats’ Reaction to the Massachusetts’ Election: ANGER AND FRUSTRATION

In a special election in the bluest of blue states, Massachusetts’ voters filled Senator Edward Kennedy’s seat with an Independent Republican, Scott Brown. This not only shocked the nation, but Washington D.C. itself. By the next day everyone was in a furor.  The Democrats, themselves, were in disarray. According to Peter Johnson, Jr. a noted [...]

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Economic Issues: Folkland Suffering, Part 2

This is the second part in the series on the economic plight of ordinary Americans. To read the first part, go to my blog of 12/16/09 called: “Economic Issues: Out in the Trenches, Part 1”. While the Washington Fat-cats spend money like crazy,  there is suffering out in Folkland.  Obama is among the worst spender [...]

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Attacks on Christmas In 2009: “And a Happy Solstice Day to You, Too”.

I can find it in my heart to feel sorry for non-believers, for those with no religion at all in their lives, not necessarily Christian, but any religion at all. Their existence must be so barren, so empty, so lacking in meaning that I personally cannot understand why these people are so vocally persistent to [...]

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Christmas: Still Strong in the New Decade

Not only are we in a brand new year, but also in a brand new decade. For several decades now, there has been a concerted attempt by atheists to take Christ out of Christmas, to turn this hallowed holiday into a secular celebration. In my opinion, this effort has not worked, and atheists are just [...]

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