NBC has completed a year-long investigation into children working in slaughterhouses. It’s available on YouTube titled Slaughterhouse Children. I urge you to watch it. Arkansas and other states This comes to my mind particularly because of large Tyson chicken processing plants nearby. And it’s also on my mind because the Sarah Huckabee Sanders administration has […]
Arkansas isn’t the capitol for great care for children. Yet, a commission was asked to choose a memorial on the state Capitol grounds for aborted babies. They chose the less offensive one, thank goodness The commission chose the lesser of two offensive ones, this one pictured above, will have living plants. The memorial was called […]
I’ve never watched the Batchelor or its spin-offs on ABC, and I don’t like reality television, whatever that is. But I was intrigued with the idea of the Golden Bachelor. Gerry Turner Gerry Turner seemed like an ideal selection. He was handsome, a retired “restauranteur” and a widow of a few years, who said he […]
Steve Rattner, a New York investor who advised the Treasury Department in the past, has fascinating observations in his appearances on Morning Joe. One this week really caught my eye. It was on one of his favorite topics — immigration. Not the problem it seems While we hear a lot about the need for a […]
An interesting case was discussed on Smerconish.com this morning. I love to watch this show and feel it brings depth to current issues. The poll questions also are helpful, and this week’s concerns The Washington Post’s removal of an editorial cartoon from its pages. The Post’s position The editorial page editor apologized for allowing the […]
The massacre of Israelis by Hamas was horrendous, 1,400 slain, as we all know. Killings in Gaza The killings in Gaza are horrendous, 8,500 slain, as we know so far. And now we know also some 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers in the Occupied West Bank. Another 1,000 there are homeless. Demonstrations […]
I’m not going to impress you with statistics about the dead, captured and injured in Israel. Nor will I give you similar statistics for Gaza. Mimicking Thomas Friedman But I will repeat what New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said today that the Hamas attack on Israel on Saturday was no surprise. No one knew […]
Just when you think things can’t get worse…..please Republicans, don’t select Jim Jordan. What I admire I actually admire his tenacity and ability to clearly speak his mind. But it’s what comes out of his mouth that I don’t admire. And then there’s a matter of intetgrity. Remember where he came from Let’s go back […]
I found yesterday’s House hearing on the Joe Biden impeachment fascinating. Primarily it was interesting because of the lack of evidence produced. And secondarily it was interesting because what business did 40-some members of Congress have sitting there with a government shutdown looming? Certainly the president should be accountable Of course, President Biden should be […]
I haven’t posted for a bit. On August 4, I was incredibly careless and fell at my home, breaking my femur at the ball joint. After a 4.5-hour surgery at a hospital in Springfield, Mo., about two hours away from home, the surgeon was able to repair things. This was all complicated by an earlier […]