American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: Woodhull’s Stand
Ready to make history, Victoria Woodhull strode confidently into the Capitol on Wednesday, January 11, 1871, leading what the New...
Back Porch Thoughts
A big D.C. parade. Expensive. Meaningless. Evocative of nothing.
Parades usually mean something, provide joy or energy or create a cohesiveness, a reason for the...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: Truman and the Land of Hope
It was the day after Easter Sunday, and President Harry Truman entered the Rose Garden at...
Doing the math
Let’s look at the 2024 Presidential Election by the numbers.
There were approximately 245 million voter-eligible Americans at the time of the 2024 Presidential race.
Regrettably,...
Efficiency lacking
Early in May I noticed that I had not received my water bill, although sometimes the confirm mail is late. I called Eureka Springs Public Works to...
Slow motion happens quickly
Sticks and stones…we’re all heard it, felt it, said it, and probably even accepted it even though suspecting it’s not as true as we...
American Insights
The Tellings of June
June is not just any other month. To we Americans, it is a month filled with historical significance. And while it...
From the heart of his daughter
A hundred and two years ago, In the spring of the 1923, my father finished his eighth, and last, year of school. North Dakota...
Taxpayer stress
While doing research with the VA a few years ago I found that if a national guardsman is called up for duty by the...
Water’s getting higher
The Beaver Bridge is in imminent danger of being washed away. The end of the Eureka side of the yellow steel main structure of...