I care for kids, families, the sick and the elderly, working class, middle class, and every American. To end poverty and advance the American Dream, I am Libertarian Girl.
Since 1906, the United States Department of Agriculture has employed more than 60 “tick riders,” federal workers who patrol the Texas-Mexico border on horseback and inspect cattle and livestock herds for signs of Mexican livestock and the resultant infestations of the “fever tick.”
Apparently the fever tick is a really bad thing that we don’t want [...]
Andrew Olmsted kept a blog for close to five years, before he stopped posting around last February when he realized that his writing may have gone against Department of Defense guidelines for military personnel. He was sent to Iraq in July, and while there, he started posting at the Rocky Mountain News with DOD approval. [...]
Driving across the country provides you with thinking time about issues that you normally wouldn’t dwell on. One of these involves rest areas.
I noticed when I entered Iowa that a “Welcome Center” greeted me that was more of the nature of something you’d find at the site of a Southern plantation than something you’d expect [...]
It’s a sad and beautiful sight… Arlington National Cemetery at Christmastime.
Tags: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington Christmas, Arlington National Cemetery Christmas
I’ve always liked the quote from Karl Marx, “Religion is the opiate of the people.”
A friend wanted me to see the new movie The Golden Compass, based on Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials, so I started looking into it. I’ve been wanting to read the HDM books since a few years ago when I [...]