06.27.06

Why America Works

Posted in Politics and Issues, Culture and Ideas at 12:26 pm by Jeff

If you aren’t familiar with Victor Davis Hanson and you live in Central Valley, shame on you. VDH makes me proud to live here. Here’s an excerpt from his latest piece.

Even in this age of political acrimony, Americans in their individualism retain their creed of live and let live, and an admirable tolerance for what they don’t go in for. For all the recent hype about our supposed age of small-mindedness and the strategies of “personal destruction,” politics is not a divide that daily separates us into warring factions–and not so based on skin color, religion, or even income. America is no Bosnia, Rwanda, or Iraq–or even Europe with its rigid class demarcations and doctrinaire ideologies.

Victor Davis Hanson: A Summer Reflection on Why America Works

06.20.06

The Food Revolution is Coming

Posted in Science and Technology, Politics and Issues, Faith and Practice, Culture and Ideas at 11:22 am by Jeff

What do you know about where your food comes from? Do you care? While most of us want to personally know our doctor, mechanic and housekeeper (okay, as if I could afford a housekeeper), how many of us actually know the person growing and producting our food?

For some people, reconnecting with the source of their food is a powerful idea.

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