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  • History, Slavery, and War

    In the US History class that I am taking right now we are currently talking about the Civil War. What I find most interesting about this has nothing to do with the war or the material or any such thing. Instead, my int…

  • Japan didn't spend enough...

    In case you don't know, Japan has been in a recession since the bursting of a real-estate bubble there in the late 1980's and the Japanese Government tried the same spending your way out of the recession thing that the …

  • Caring about the populace...

    At church last night we had a visitor who works with a child sponsorship charity called Food for the Hungry. Up until a few months ago he was FH's country director for Ethiopia, he now works at FH's offices in Washingto…

  • Campaigning for President

    I get rather irritated by the way people tend to approach Presidential campaigns. I just don't like the speeches in front of really large crowds and aimlessly crisscrossing the country stuff filled with all sorts of con…

  • Senate

    Here in Kansas we are dealing with a senate race and the ads for it as I am sure many of you are. The funny thing is that in this race we have a democratic candidate, Jim Slattery, who only recently moved back to KS aft…

  • Racism

    I was watching part of one of the episodes of the PBS miniseries Carrier about life onboard aircraft carriers. On it one of the guys was kicked out of the Navy for racism. But one thing about it caught my attention. T…

  • Space

    The current plan is to retire the Space Shuttle in 2010 and to use the Russian Soyuz capsule for transport to and from the space station from then until the US's Orion capsule comes online in 2014 or 2015. Honestly this…

  • Obama and Taxes

    I see no reason to believe that Obama will be able to get all the money from the richest 4% that he says he is going to tax to be able to support all of the programs that he wants to implement. In fact I don't think he …

  • Lawsuits

    There are a lot of weird and pointless lawsuits in the US. There are also lawsuits that are justified and very much worth the time and effort it takes to fight them. I could ask you numerous questions about lawsuits bu…

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