Month: November 2005

“Do you have wireless inter-net?” I asked the twenty-something check-in girl at the front desk of the Johnson City, Tennessee Best Western motel. “Jes here in the lobby…or in the bar there,” she...

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.     Franklin D. Roosevelt We have heard reports of a surging...

Maybe our Democratic Party does have some fight in it after all.  Other than its unified position against the Bush-Santorum effort to destroy Social Security by way of “privatization,” the national Democratic...

Under the guise of Cutting Big Government, The Republican Study Committee, of which Congressman Mike Pence is Chair, has recommended “Operation Offset.” I am Barry Welsh and I am running for Congress against...

I live in my own world half the time.  I can be insular.  Provincial.  I try to follow national politics, but am frequently oblivious on some issues. I’ve seen the names Kaine and Kilgore bandied about on...