The View from This Seat

In spite of what I wrote in my previous posting, I do not like compromise. That is one reason I am glad to have spent my life as a teacher/...

Well, it looks as if health care reform is going to pass. As you know, the Senate version was approved early on December 24, and one way or ...

In this last blog posting before Christmas, I take this means to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas ! In his comments after my previo...

This is my follow-up to the posting about “The Amazing Booths” (Dec. 8). As I indicated then, I have the highest admiration for William and ...

About the same time I was making my last posting (on Dec. 10), President Obama was giving his Nobel Lecture in Oslo. “A Just and Lasting Pe...

Today is Human Rights Day, a yearly observance in commemoration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which was adopted by th...

William and Catherine Mumford Booth were amazing people. Three years ago I read the impressive biography William and Catherine: The Life a...