Ever since Sam Brownback left the Senate to run and become Governor of Kansas, the poor and middle class in that state have been overtaxed and underserved. The latest injury is a law the Kansas legislature wrote and the Governor signed which limits the amount of money welfare recipients (who aren’t getting huge sums from …
In this case I mean the airplane, not the lapel pin. Each has its own history. The plane, a B-25 bomber, was about to fly on the Doolittle Raid in 1942. According to its pilot, Ted Lawson, while practicing takeoffs and landings on land there was a minor accident during which the plane’s tail scraped …
The Pacific Aviation Museum. Two humongous aircraft hangars full of aircraft, engines, a small theater, a café, dioramas, and the story of Pearl Harbor right in the middle of the harbor on Ford Island. If you saw “Tora! Tora! Tora!” or “Pearl Harbor” you saw the red-and-white control tower which fronts Hangar 37, the building …
Leaving aside the merits of his decision to join an already-overflowing field of candidates for the Republican nomination for the Presidency of the United States in 2016, the problem the US faces which Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina feels he’s best equipped to solve is this: “I’m running because I think the world is …
You don’t have to be in combat to die when you’re in the military. Sadly, we got proof of that again today when a Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed at Bellows Air Force Station on the Windward side of Oahu. Reports so far indicate one Marine dead and twelve more hospitalized. The investigation is ongoing.
Monday, May 18, will be the 35th anniversary of the cataclysmic eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington State. There will undoubtedly be lots of stories published remembering the events of that day. Here’s a retrospective view with a list of commemorative events in the region. Here’s the 1981 article from National Geographic Magazine. I …
B.B. King has died. It’s reported that he passed away peacefully in his home tonight. He was 89. Here he is singing his signature song “The Thrill is Gone” in 2010 at the Crossroads Guitar Festival, sided by Eric Clapton, Jimmie Vaughan, and the Robert Cray Band, joined at the nine-minute mark by a host …
I walked into the kitchen this morning and looked out the window toward the bird feeder, which I’d filled yesterday afternoon around 4:00pm. Suddenly this guy appeared. From Events We’re speculating that he’s an escapee from a cage somewhere nearby, although Hawai’i Audobon says there are four introduced parrot/parakeet species which have or have had …
Happy Birthday, Yogi Berra! If you’re a baseball fan you know Yogi’s name. Hall of Fame catcher for the Yankees, 13 World Series rings, 15 times an All-Star, manager of both the Yankees and the Mets and winner of a Series with each. I’ve never heard anyone say a bad word about the man, either. …
Back in March I posted a picture of Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It had bright spots which were puzzling NASA. Well, new pictures have come back from the probe called Dawn, which is now in its first full orbit of Ceres. This picture was taken from 13,600km …