Dear Senator Durbin: Do You Get It?

Dear Senator Durbin; Thank you for responding to my letter regarding your inability to hold town hall meetings with the people of Illinois. I appreciate that you are a busy man and prefer to receive input from the select few who will support your own views. It takes courage to stand before a group of [...]

Public Option By Hook Or Crook?

Trigger option? What that probably means is a public option health care bill will automatically become a reality if private insurance companies don’t meet some government mandated goal.  I’m sure the goals will be totally unrealistic and impossible to meet. Public option will get in by hook or crook.  I have a different version of [...]

Tea Party Express–New Lenox, IL

This Labor Day was the most unusual I have ever spent. I participated in a Tea Party Express rally in New Lenox, a small town just west of Frankfort. A few years ago, the population of New Lenox, IL was around four thousand. Today it has around sixteen thousand. What happened yesterday, jammed the town [...]

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future!”

I am really concerned about the lack of understanding regarding the president’s address to the nation’s school children. Why is it harmful for the president talking about the value of staying in school, right?  I agree, he is the  Commander In Chief.  He should be the role model for the nation. Presidents G H W Bush, and [...]

Which Will It Be? Human Potential, Or Human Destruction?

Abraham Maslow created a theory which is presented graphically with the pyramid shown at the left in the cartoon below.  His theory is broadly taught in classes about human potential and motivation. I for one, strongly agree with his analysis. When a person is hungry, and cold without food or shelter, it is very hard for [...]

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