Eric Scheske

I enjoyed a beautiful evening with my middle boys, playing baseball; with my five smallest children, riding our bikes to the new car hop and eating ice cream outside while traffic whizzed by on U.S. 12; shooting baskets; doing some light work in the garden. With all that going

Autobiographical Corner A first in my life: I removed a tree stump. Actually, three tree stumps, but two were rooted together and came out as one. They'd been in my backyard for 15 years, tacitly taunting me, mocking my virility. I resolved to take them out. A friend

Easter Greetings Happy Easter. Augustine said a Christian should be an "alleluia from head to toe." It's a beautiful idea. I wish I could be an alleluia from just my elbow to my wrist, but I can keep trying and this is a wonderful time of

“When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld “him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a man step

In the 1930s, the Times (London) asked G.K. Chesterton and others to write on the topic of "What's Wrong with the World Today." Chesterton sent back a two-word response: Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely, G.K. Chesterton "For all that ever was wrong,

When Ole quit farming, he discovered that he was the only Lutheran in his new little town of Catholics. That was okay, but the neighbors had a problem with his barbequing beef every Friday. Since they couldn't eat meat on Friday, the tempting aroma was getting the best

Great Video Gotta check out this video [http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff80.1.html]. Peter Schiff engages in his usual (and justified) Bernanke bashing. An economist comes to Bernanke's aid. After Schiff says Bernanke has never gotten anything right, the economist responds, "He's gotten

Obama and the Frog Drudge slayed me yesterday with this picture and the caption: "DYNAMIC DUO LEAD CHARGE ON IRAN." . . . . Remember those health care upbeat stories I linked to last week, including the one about favorable polling figures? It looks like the polls have already gone back to

Stein to Suffrage "How many Wall Streeters have been indicted? None. Well, you will say, what about the psycho Madoff? True, he's a criminal. But he had nothing to do with the housing collapse. Compared with Goldman Sachs, he was a pickpocket. And Goldman Sachs is basically