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Prior to 1863, the country had informally established a day of THANKSGIVING. Its characteristics are familiar to us all – it was about Pilgrims and Turkey dinner and native Americans saving the colonists from starvation. George Washington affirmed this informal celebration but never established a national holiday. That task was left to Lincoln who issued … Read more

In the last election, some very powerful forces, whose sole goal was to seize power and bring about a new world order, defeated Donald Trump. (Kind of. I mean, maybe they stole it). The central theme they used was simple: Trump is a very bad man; he is mean and nasty, and selfish. Never mind … Read more

Not quite 70 years ago, my mom and dad drove the family car-a, Studebaker- from Milton Freewater, Oregon, to Star, Idaho, to attend the 4-day Thanksgiving celebration that my mom’s family had staged every year since the family farm began back in the 1860s. You could stand on the front porch and look 20 miles … Read more

In a previous post, I began an analysis of the 1.7 trillion-dollar Joe Biden funding bill. I made the mistake of saying it was not “A” budget but many budgets applying to separate agencies. The mistake was that the separate funding bills per agency are also not budgets. To put it as best I can, … Read more