The Center for Responsive Politics estimates that a record $6 billion was raised during the 2012 presidential campaign. Yet, all it took was a bartender armed with little more than a tiny camera to counter that mountain of campaign cash.Mitt Romney鈥檚 propensity for making unforced errors kept ...
The Romney鈥檚 have buried their measuring tape. You know, the one with which they wanted measure the Oval Office drapes. They鈥檝e returned to the media spotlight.Ann Romney was appearing on the same media (albeit marginally, since it was Fox News) of which she blamed for the downfall of Mitt ...
Last week I highlighted some of the numerous, and unsuccessful efforts George Washington made to sell his properties in Fayette County.The Library of Congress web site contains tens of thousands of Washington鈥檚 handwritten diaries and letters which can easily be found, simply by using the ...
Chuck Hagel is now our new Secretary of Defense. Was there ever any doubt? Well, er, yeah.From the time President Obama nominated Hagel, everybody knew there were enough votes to have him confirmed by the U.S. Senate. But Republicans, with what has apparently become their sole purpose for going ...
George Washington wrote a number of letters on Sept, 16, 1787.At least two of those letters dealt with properties he owned in Fayette County.鈥淔or the Land in Fayette County, I have been offered the price I had fixed on it, viz Forty Shillings pr. (per) Acre,鈥� he wrote in one letter.He was, ...
This being the 247th Did You Know column I鈥檝e written, I think I have a much better understanding about the people who鈥檝e inhabited Fayette County over the years.But there is one area about which I鈥檓 a little flummoxed. What on earth did those people eat?It鈥檚 probably true that if ...