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My Aunt Ruthie used to make the best pickles ever.
Ruthie was my mom’s sister, and she died a few years back in a car accident that left us all sad and shaken and filled with memories. I remember her dry humor and her sharp intellect and her voracious reading habits. I remember her never-ending kindness and resilience. And I remember her pickles.
I won’t apologize to anyone for being American.
It seems with technology and poor education in civics classes, our younger Americans are being fed a lot of bad information designed to guilt them into feeling bad about our history.
We try to guilt ourselves about slavery, even though we started the road to abolishing it right in line with most every other nation. While the United States banned the slave trade in 1808, Sweden didn’t ban it until 1814, and France banned the trade in 1817. Britain didn’t start to phase out slavery in its colonies around the world until 1833.
I inherited a love of walking from my mom. As a child, going for a walk was a reason to get out of the house to see what was going on in the world. Now it is a luxury to walk those same roads spending time with my mom and the feeling of nostalgia that comes with reliving a piece of my former home.
Walking is one of the only ways to exercise that I don’t mind, and it has been a fairly constant part of my routine no matter where I’ve lived. During the pandemic, walking gave me new appreciation for the privilege of wide open spaces only known to those of us who live in the country. Walking was part of the rehab from my back surgery a few years ago that opened my eyes to seeing the patterns of nature happening all around me. Lately, I have been trying to consistently walk a few miles a day for the benefit of body and mind.
Ask any Republican older than 50 who they most admire in their lifetime, and the answer will almost assuredly be Ronald Reagan.
Reagan won 49 states in his re-election in 1984 and united the country in a way no one had seen since he left office.
It’s hard to fathom his re-election was 40 years ago.
Kansas’ U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids is taking money from a funder of some of the groups involved in the anti-Israel protests, according to a report by Fox News.
Davids, who represents the state’s 3rd Congressional District in the Kansas City area, is reported to have accepted campaign contributions from the Pritzker family, described as “heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire.”
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