American Insights
Marching On
Before they marched, they kneeled and prayed at Browns Chapel Methodist. “And then we set out, nearly six hundred of us,” John Lewis recalled. “We walked two abreast, in a pair of lines...
What’s wrong with what’s right?
Just read in our paper that Mike Welch cannot serve on our city council because of a 50-year-old conviction for pot.
Come on, Eureka council, this is obsolete and petty to do such a ridiculous...
Aldous Huxley called it
The outrage is coming so fast that yesterday’s outrage is supplanted by today’s. Our government is being dismantled so quickly that it’s hard to know how long it can last.
I was in my early...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: Reagan and the Cold War
He was not a man to mince words. Standing in the Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster in London on Tuesday, June 8, 1982, and speaking...
Librarians won’t put up with your Shhhhh…
Librarians’ professional credibility and competence continues to be under attack by the State of Arkansas, now in the form of Senate Bill 184 which moves to abolish the Arkansas Educational Television Commission and the...
Don’t be Fooled by Wind Energy’s False Promises
The wind industry is working hard to persuade Arkansans of the benefits of wind energy.
Onshore industrial wind turbines are oil cans on 700-foot-high lightning rods. Wind “farms” require massive deforestation and can damage underground...
An Economic Windfall is Coming to Rural Arkansas Communities, If Our Politicians Allow It
Arkansas has an extraordinary opportunity to strengthen its economy, electric grid, and energy independence through wind energy. Yes, the wind is blowing into the Natural State and bringing jobs and tax revenue with it....
Good manners are appreciated
I attended my first Eureka Springs City Council meeting on January 27.
I have no shame in confessing that I am a dull person. After around 15 years living in Carroll County, my social footprint...
Actions have consequences
Recent news states that the USA would like to absorb Canada as the 51st state.
Last year’s poll of the ten best cities in the world to live in had 3 of the 10 in...
