Below is the prepared speech given by Senator Obama on Retirement Security. Obama’s Retirement Plan is essentially this: No Privatization Address the coming Social Security funding gap not by reducing benefits or changing the retirement age but rather by...
A reader asked me to look into the question of why only three year old horses are allowed to race in the Kentucky Derby. I wasn’t able to find a “for sure” answer, but I did find some information that points in the general direction. The Kentucky...
Guns aren’t really an issue that interests me all that much. If they are for you, then here is the full text of John McCain’s speech to the National Rifle Association (NRA). The real reason that I’m posting the remarks however is for what McCain says...
Lebanon is an incredibly complex society composed of groups that have often found it difficult to live together. After years of civil war, peace slowly came, but only as parts of the country and government were occupied by Israel and Syria. Hezbollah was the proxy...
I don’t suspect that many of you have ever flown at relatively low altitudes over the state of Iowa. I used to do it fairly regularly, flying by turbo-prop jet from Minneapolis to Sioux City. One of the incredible things that you see (okay, maybe the only...
