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POLITICAL INVERSION

Do you sometimes feel whipsawed by inverted political positions?  Perhaps the best current example of it is with HR. 4417 and S. 2019 known as the EATS Act—stands for Exposing Agricultural Trade Suppression…

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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Children’s Health Defense Fund magazine, The Defender, asked me to respond to this study today.  It’s a bit dated, presented by RethinkX in 2018, which makes it even more relevant than the day it was published…

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MY GURUS

My favorite gurus are all going to be assembled in one place, at one time, and you can hear them too…

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APARTMENT CHICKENS

Well, we’ve certainly got a lively discussion going with a HENDOMINIUM in city apartments…

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CHICKEN FURNITURE

I’ve sure enjoyed all the give and take on this in-house chicken discussion stimulated, as you know, by $100 million in venture capital to start up kitchen scrap dehydration and shipping to make into chicken feed…

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INDOOR CHICKENS

Yesterday’s blog post inspired some great comments and I want to respond to the aversion several of you expressed about dust, smell, and chores in an apartment…

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SHIPPING GARBAGE

The Wall Street Journal over the weekend ran a big story on the number of start-ups getting into the food waste business, trying to keep it out of landfills…

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DAVID AND GOLIATH

Happy New Year, everyone.  I preached Sunday, filling in for our pastor, who was out of town.  As a text, I used probably the most famous Bible story in all history:  David and Goliath…

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POLITICAL DRIVEL

One of my annual routines is what I call “cleaning off the desk” and I usually get it done between Christmas and New Year’s.  So today I’m deeply imbedded in finding hidden papers, neglected letters to answer, and everything that got put off during the hectic time of the year…

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100 YEARS OLD

Mom turned 100 Dec. 11 and we had a birthday celebration for long-time friends and neighbors at a local bed and breakfast on Sunday.  It was quite a doin’s and was wonderful to see folks spanning a lifetime…

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WHO WILL DEFEND US?

“I’m a West Point grad, planned on a military career, but I’ve been in 5 years and am getting out,” said the young man, tears his eyes. ..”

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EATING SOLAR PANELS 

A wonderful young homesteading couple from Indiana visited us over the weekend with a first person disconcerting story…

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