by Mike Bock | Oct 29, 2009 | Dayton Blog Feeds
At the League of Women Voters Community Meeting this evening, October 28, held at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, in Kettering, Ohio, there were about 40 people in attendance. Each of the six candidates took turns answering questions. I took my video camera and sat...
by Mike Bock | Dec 5, 2008 | Dayton Blog Feeds
In searching around about Deepak Chopra’s controversial comments on CNN, I discovered that Chopra has published a new book, Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment. This Time Magazine review, by David Van Biema, says, that in this book, “We meet Jesus consulting with a...
by Mike Bock | Nov 25, 2008 | Dayton Blog Feeds
Robert J. Samuelson of Newsweek notes that since September 2007, Americans’ personal wealth has dropped about $9 trillion and that a common estimate is that every dollar’s change in wealth causes people to change their spending by 5 cents. If this estimate...
by Mike Bock | Nov 13, 2008 | Dayton Blog Feeds
Jeffrey Hart, a former editor of National Review, and former speechwriter for both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, writes that the conservative movement that backed George W. Bush “is now dead.” He urges the Republican Party to move away from “Bushism,” and Reaganism...
by Mike Bock | Nov 12, 2008 | Dayton Blog Feeds
According to a New York Times article, After Push for Obama, Unions Seek New Rules, one big goal unions want to accomplish, with President Obama’s help, is passage of legislation that will make it easier for workers to unionize. The NYT says, “Labor’s No. 1 priority...
by Mike Bock | Nov 12, 2008 | Dayton Blog Feeds
The editor of The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel, has compiled a list of actions she is urging President Obama to implement in his first 100 days in office: Bush Executive Orders: As Obama himself said of his first 100 days when campaigning in Denver, “I would...
