by James Heflin | Oct 18, 2011 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Anwar Al-Awlaki was a jihadist who clearly had to be dealt with. Al-Awlaki was also an American citizen, killed by his own government without due process. With his death, he gained a terrible victory: proving that we as a nation are not in fact a nation of laws, but...
by James Heflin | Oct 28, 2011 | Ten Gallon Liberal
When you look at the stars, you probably know what you’re seeing, or at least you think so. If your sky-gazing needs a bit of extra mystery, nature seems to have provided it: Oct 18, 2011: NASA’s Fermi team recently released the second catalog of gamma-ray...
by Caleb Rounds | Oct 8, 2011 | Talk Dirt to Me
I’ve been disappointed by my tomato harvest this year. Initially I wanted to react as the two boarders do: sit down in the middle of the floor and cry or scream until someone makes me go to my room for awhile. The boss got tired of this behavior, so I have...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 2, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
I’m totally teen years—the biggest boy turned 16 this month—into parenting. The third guy just turned nine (!). Raising a family and being married is, on the one hand, everything I hoped it would be and completely different from what I imagined....
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Oct 4, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows
When I think back on this morning eighteen years ago, it really does seem a lifetime ago. Just a couple of weeks shy of three years in (relationship, love, living together—all more or less an instant deal) we were not strangers or anything. Still, our sense of...