Washington DC Trip Part III: Comparative Zoo-ology

We always like to visit zoos, so during our trip to the DC area, we took a day to visit the Washington Zoo.  That counted for one more “field trip” day of homeschool.
The Washington Zoo has free admittance, but parking is $16.00/day.  The food is expensive, and we were told that it was not good, [...]

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Up to Our Ears in Corn

So my step-dad calls Jane and says, “Can I bring up a bag of sweet corn from our garden?”  It is our policy to never say no to free garden produce (with the possible exception of okra), so she says yes.
So Mom and Jack brought up a bag of corn, but they didn’t mention that [...]

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Seditious Homicidal Grandmas

My daughter happened to be running in Frontier Park during the anti-war demonstration that was held there yesterday.  Before I saw the protest, I suspected something was up when I noticed the large number of parked cars with political bumper stickers.  Some of them still had Kerry-Edwards 2004 bumper stickers on their cars.  Isn’t it [...]

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Is This Candidate Racist?

One of the top tier presidential candidates is a member of a church with a website. His membership in and support of his church is well known. The church’s website has a mission statement that goes like this:
“We are a congregation which is Unashamedly White and Unapologetically Christian… Our roots in the White religious experience [...]

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Washington, D.C. Trip Part II

On our next day of sightseeing, we took the Metro (which is really nice once you figure it out) into the Federal District, popping out of a hole in the ground next to the Ronald Reagan Building.  Travelling with the kids only gets better with time. We had 4 small backpacks with several water bottles [...]

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Washington, D.C. Trip – Part I

Last week, we travelled to Washington, D.C.  to visit Jane’s brother’s family.  Since we homeschool our youngest 4 kids, we also got to count our 4 days of sightseeing as school days.
Day 1 – Harper’s Ferry
Harper’s Ferry was an important town in the 19th century.  The Potomac and Shenandoah rivers meet there, providing water power [...]

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Iowa Straw Poll: Why Huckabee Finished Second

The biggest surprise of yesterday’s Iowa Straw Poll was that Mike Huckabee came in second.  Mitt Romney spent a large amount of money, was well organized, and won as expected.  Sam Brownback also spent a lot, and he rented about 60 buses to get his supporters to the event.  But Mike Huckabee didn’t rent any buses, [...]

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Congratulations Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar

Most births are only reported in the fine print of the local newspaper, but when Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar became parents of baby #17 – a girl named Jennifer Danielle – it made national news. For most people, it is a newsworthy curiosity that someone else would actually have 17 kids.  A lot of [...]

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Swimming Pool Envy

Ex. 20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
I can handle most of this commandment pretty well, especially if I interpret it really narrowly, like a Pharisee would.  [...]

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Global Warming Alarmists and Women Drivers

There is no doubt that our climate is changing, just as it has throughout the earth’s history.  (Remember, Greenland used to be green.) And the present temperature trend appears to be upward, although in the last decade the earth’s temperature may be levelling off.  (Note: I am very skeptical of measurements of the earth’s average temperature.  [...]

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