My Mother, Rose Adelaide Corey
My Dad, Leroy Kenneth Earl Horn
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Recently Received Historic Family Photos
My paternal grandmother's side. Great photos.
William & Susan Wharton Family
ID: (1) Dora, (2) Edward, (3) Nellie, (4) Susan, (5) William Wharton.
Nellie Wharton
William & Susan Wharton Family
ID: (1) Dora, (2) Edward, (3) Nellie, (4) Susan, (5) William Wharton.
Nellie Wharton
Video Review of TPE Before the Name Change
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Just came across this video review of the magazine by a reader from 3/27/09.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Curbing the Political Vitriol
Yesterday at the Arizona Memorial Service for the six left dead at a political event by a raging madman, President Obama called for a lessening of polarizing political discourse. The tragedy also left 14 injured, some critically, including the prime target of the attack, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
"At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized—at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do—it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds," he said. He asked Americans not to "use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another."
It will be encouraging if the President's own party heeds his words. Prominent Democrats and liberal talk-show hosts have been busy outrageously blaming the attack on conservative commentators—despite the fact that Giffords describes herself as a "Blue Dog Democrat," a moderate and independent thinker. And despite the fact that the shooter did not listen to talk radio and was not politically motivated. Perhaps the worst of all of them was the Sheriff of Pima County who was clearly acting like a Dupnik.
This is indeed outrageous, slanderous and libelous. Listen to your leader, liberals.
But there is another side to this. The President's words, whether rhetoric or no, hold truth. Across the board we need less vitriol. Fewer debates, more discussions.
I sometimes catch a few minutes of "Bill Bennett's Morning in America" on my early-morning drive to work. Bennett is admittedly a conservative, but one of a different stripe. TownHall once said that "stumbling across Bill Bennett on the radio is like bumping into Socrates at Starbucks. ... As you listen, you think maybe civilization isn't lost after all."
Socrates? Actually, his show is based on three conditions he calls the Socratic method: candor, intelligence and goodwill. Just this morning he was saying that it was just to early for yelling. On his show you find no yelling and no condescension.
I haven't heard enough of his show to be impressed by the content.
But I am impressed by his approach.
Yes, I am a staunch conservative and have no use for much of what liberals have done of late. I am glad for the change in D.C. But I also know that conservatives in the public square have a way of disappointing us too. The last election is not cause for celebration, but it is cause for hope.
I hope both parties (including the President himself) and all political commentators listen and follow the Socratic method:
Candor: Let's have the open doors and lack of secret negotiations we were promised.
Intelligence: Read the bills and intelligently discuss the content.
Goodwill: Enough said.
"At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized—at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do—it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds," he said. He asked Americans not to "use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another."
It will be encouraging if the President's own party heeds his words. Prominent Democrats and liberal talk-show hosts have been busy outrageously blaming the attack on conservative commentators—despite the fact that Giffords describes herself as a "Blue Dog Democrat," a moderate and independent thinker. And despite the fact that the shooter did not listen to talk radio and was not politically motivated. Perhaps the worst of all of them was the Sheriff of Pima County who was clearly acting like a Dupnik.
This is indeed outrageous, slanderous and libelous. Listen to your leader, liberals.
But there is another side to this. The President's words, whether rhetoric or no, hold truth. Across the board we need less vitriol. Fewer debates, more discussions.
I sometimes catch a few minutes of "Bill Bennett's Morning in America" on my early-morning drive to work. Bennett is admittedly a conservative, but one of a different stripe. TownHall once said that "stumbling across Bill Bennett on the radio is like bumping into Socrates at Starbucks. ... As you listen, you think maybe civilization isn't lost after all."
Socrates? Actually, his show is based on three conditions he calls the Socratic method: candor, intelligence and goodwill. Just this morning he was saying that it was just to early for yelling. On his show you find no yelling and no condescension.
I haven't heard enough of his show to be impressed by the content.
But I am impressed by his approach.
Yes, I am a staunch conservative and have no use for much of what liberals have done of late. I am glad for the change in D.C. But I also know that conservatives in the public square have a way of disappointing us too. The last election is not cause for celebration, but it is cause for hope.
I hope both parties (including the President himself) and all political commentators listen and follow the Socratic method:
Candor: Let's have the open doors and lack of secret negotiations we were promised.
Intelligence: Read the bills and intelligently discuss the content.
Goodwill: Enough said.
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