Notes From Flyover Country : Gene Lyons, Esteemed Columnist, Calls It Quits Over Trump: My Flyover-Country Response

In an op-ed essay that appeared in my local newspaper yesterday, Gene Lyons wrote that he is retiring mainly due ...
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Towing Our Lifeless Kubota to High Ground as the Mississippi Floods for the Second Time This Spring

Millions of Americans are worried about the stock market, which tanked last week. People saw their retirement accounts shrink dramatically, ...
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First, it was Russia! Russia! Russia! Now, it’s Social Security! Social Security! Social Security!

 Democrats have morphed from being the Party of Chaos to the Party of Chicken Little. For years, the Dems accused ...
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Notes From Flyover Country : Matt Taibbi sues Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove for defamation: She should apologize pronto

Over the past several months, Congressional Democrats have descended into demogagery, profanity, and clownisness as a way of expressing their ...
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Notes From Flyover Country : Removing a biased federal judge from a case: There’s a simple fix

 Donald Trump and his supporters have repeatedly been battered by biased or hostile judges in the DC Circuit–a rat’s nest ...
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Alaska has the solution for the problem of biased federal judges

This week, the House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the problem of biased federal judges in the D.C. Circuit. The ...
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IDR Application is Back Up

On March 26, 2025, the Department of Education reopened the online application for Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plans for federal student ...
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Alexader Hurst trashes “Maga-Land” for the Trump-Deranged Guardian

 Of all the Trump-hating media outlets that hate Trump–and there are dozens of them–the Guardian is the most brazen and ...
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Notes From Flyover Country : “Social Security is beaking down,” claims the Washington Post: Ain’t necessarily so

 “Social Security is breaking down,” the Washington Post cried out yesterday, and the Democratic National Committee joined in the alarm. ...
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A Mistake of the Head and not the Heart

 In the evening of my life, I am painfully aware of the mistakes I made when I was young, and ...
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