Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Americana
Diary of Orrin Brown, Dalton, Georgia Thursday–Nov. 3rd It rained all night more or less and it is still raining this morning, we were called on to guard a train to Atlanta, packed up in the rain, drew two days rations in the rain and left camp in the rain got aboard the train, 17 […]
I was a loyal reader of National Review in William F. Buckley’s day. I’ve since let my subscription lapse as my personal conservatism seems to have diverged from the chattering class. The Future of Conservatism: Stagecraft or Ideology? October 13, 4 p.m. | Humphrey Forum, Humphrey School The Center for the Study of Politics and […]
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has some “investigative reporting” in the Sunday paper today, looking at G. Steven Burrill’s proposed Elk Run bio-science development on the road between Rochester and the Twin Cities, in Southeast Minnesota. As you may recall, Mr. Burrill gave a Big Picture talk about the state of human and agricultural bio-technologies at the Worthington Bio-Science Conference last spring. I […]
My first job was delivering the Fargo Forum and I have had a daily newspaper delivered most every day of my life from then until I moved to Minnesota four years ago. We were renting a farm place out in the country beyond delivery service. So I came to rely even more on web-sourced news. Recent bankruptcies […]
