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by Robert M Traxler China is leading in saving the earth. Well, yes, according to our former governor. “U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm claimed Friday that Americans can…

’Twas only a week ago in the tiny burg of Germfask in the Upper Peninsula that my wife and I stopped at the Jolly Inn for lunch. Though the Jolly…

Woke: Aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of race and social justice). — Definition courtesy Mirian-Webster Dictionary online. by Lynn Mandaville I’d like…

by Robert M. Traxler The only way to control illegal drugs is to stop or massively curtail demand. Cocaine was made illegal in 1914 in the Harrison Narcotics Act, along…

“The only thing we have to fear is… fear itself!” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his inaugural address in March 1933. It long has been my opinion that fear…

by Robert M. Traxler "We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gases/carbon] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would…

I lit my purest candle close to my Window, hoping it would catch the eye Of any vagabond who passed it by, And I waited in my fleeting house Before…