Monthly Archives: May 2009

Prince William’s Garden Has a Little Green Tomato (Issue 221)

My 4 year old grandson Prince William and I have a garden plot that is 10 feet by 8 feet that we call his farm. With all this rain, the squash plants are huge, the tomato plants are really thriving, and today William was so excited over seeing one tiny green tomato.
 
 There is a  little [...]

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Dear Mr. President, “Keep the Change.” (Issue 220)

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT, “KEEP THE CHANGE.”
 
 
 
During the long campaign for president, we heard like a mantra, over and over, you were for change change, change. Your plans were for transparency out of Washington. You were going to change the operations of Lobbyist and a list of things you said you were going to do.
 
Since you [...]

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Ownership, Boundaries, Principles, Value Judgments, Sovereignty (Issue 219)

Lately, I have been receiving some interesting questions, like, who defines boundaries, and why is ownership a principle. Plus some debatable statements like, freedom is not given to us by a creator and freedom does not exist in nature. And freedom cannot be fought for and anyone who believes it can and will always lose in [...]

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The Great Depression, People/Events in the News, King Edward’s Farewell Speech, Wally Simpson. Part 3 (Issue 218)

During those depression years, mostly in the thirties, there was no television, and we did not have a telephone. We kept up with what was happening in the world through the radio and daily newspapers and magazines, plus once a week, current news events in History class.
 
There was a lot of news about such things [...]

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Great Depression Years – Movie Stars, Royalty, Travels, My Life. Part two (Issue 217)

I’m writing a series of stories about the Great Depression years which actually began in the 1920’s. The Stock market crash came in 1929. The depression lasted through the thirties into the first years of the 1940’s
 
I have written bits and pieces about growing up on a farm in northeast Georgia during that period. This [...]

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