WHILE WE SLEPT; Tens of thousands of displaced people have been making their way through the night out of the mid east and into all parts of Europe, trying to find a place of refuge , a place where they can find water, food, shelter and freedom from bombs and weapons of destruction. These are business people, lawyers, doctors and educators and people of every rank and file of society. They are old and young, rich and poor, healthy and unhealthy. Their life has been disrupted and going en masse as...

This week's Time Magazine has a feature article about America's sick care industry. The article written by Steven Brill is well researched and doesn't paint a pretty picture about what is now the largest industry in the country. It uses up more of our money in taxes, in insurance premiums and out of pocket costs than any other. And yet as Brill points out we do not as consumers, get a better outcome than than other countries, who spend a lot less per capita on medical care.

Senator Lamar Alexander's 80 year old face pops up on the screen and he says Obama care is a failure, immigration is a mess and terrorism is wide spread. Well senator A H C is not a failure. Just ask doctors in our small towns and and those who serve in small hospitals. Immigration has been a problem all of my life and yours and the current administration has done more to resolve that than any of the three previous ones. Terrorism was active in the 1990's and in 2001 and no President has been as...

All the jails in this region are over crowded! Some are having to deal with double the inmates they were designed for. This raises several questions; 1. Have we made too many frivolous laws? 2 .Are we dealing with to many rebellious citizens, who either don't know the rules or refuse to play by the rules? 3. There are dozens and dozens of dad's incarcerated for lack of child support and of course they can't support a child from inside a jail cell. I have talked to many of these dads who just don't...

Tragedy! Plane shot down. Two hundred and ninety five dead! On another site I have been in a discussion about choices people make. Some have been arguing strongly that life is all about making good choices. Whereas, I have been saying that people do not always have good choices or even the chance to make a choice at all. Where was CHOICE involved in this? Where was time and chance involved? Some claim that nothing happens without God either causing it or permitting it and still others say, everything...