For the life of me I cannot find the local who sent me this e-mail, but I have an idea it was from a female. That said . . . * * * Americans rarely get a chance to see another country’s editorial about the USA. Read this excerpt from a Romanian newspaper. The article […]
The wonderful world of wood combined with the worldwide web have helped a local man beat back boredom. Oakwood Road resident Christopher Ex, a self-described stay-at-home-dad, kicked up his love of working a notch and started an ‘on-line? business. The Ortonville Wood Shoppe was born last September and kept Ex from going stir crazy. ‘I’ve […]
Last week I ran an editorial written by a Romanian about Americans. If you are one (American) it was positive. This week, Oxford entrepreneur Henry Gleisner (German born) reports. Methinks you’ll find this interesting. * * * I returned last week from a month’s trip to Europe. Starting in Germany, I found the anti-American propaganda […]
Ah, it’s great to be alive! Spring is in the air, the tulips and other spring flowers are up and the weather is warm. New life. Renewal. Family time. Don’t know about your situation, but I do know our little clan has gotten a little closer this spring. Why just the other day we had […]
You might call me Hillary Clinton’s biggest fan. Ever the Hillary Clinton junkie, I keep my ears open for more stuff on the future President of the United States. And just last week . . . boy did I get an earful. Whatever radio station I was listening to on the drive into work played […]
The brothers Bartle (Matt and Mike) of Mechanic Street in Oxford Village knew the weather was rough. ‘At about 7:45 p.m. we looked up over our house,? Matt said. ‘We saw the clouds swirling and moving. It wasn’t a tornado yet.? Mike grabbed his digital camera he bought a month ago and the brothers hopped […]
For some absurd reason unknown to me, my wife has this crazy idea that I, your hero, Dandy Don Rush, use too many cliches. She has even had the audacity to label me the proverbial, King of Cliche. Come on, Honey. I need another title like I need another hole in the head (United States […]
Republicans are turning a paler shade of white. Democrats are shaking their heads. Political pundits are jumping with joy. Former United States President William Jefferson Clinton has gone and done it again. He smiled, spoke and has got everybody in a tizzy. Two-term presidents, he said, should be able to run for the White House […]
The other day I was walking in a local parking lot and I saw a dirty old penny. It was dinged up pretty good so, it had been run over a few times. Despite the fact President Lincoln’s face was turned down, I bent over and picked it up and slid it in my pants […]
Here in the home of the brave and land of the free we, each of us who cares, is a slave to ‘elections.? It is a fact. The very thing that keeps us free in this democratic, representative republic — elections — is holding us down. Elections, elections, elections. It is not that we have […]