The Rural Democrat tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-635561 2013-03-12T22:38:07-04:00 A common everyday persons' point of view of politics in Kentucky. TypePad Think Globally, Act Intelligently, Defend Successfully tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8d9453ef017c379bf2ac970b 2013-03-12T22:38:07-04:00 2013-03-12T22:38:07-04:00 We have a moral obligation to educate ourselves about our world. President Eisenhower noted in Waging Peace that “few of us, because of our sketchy information about others, can think globally.” War, injustice, and poverty are not forces of nature;... Author Think Globally, Act Intelligently, Defend Successfully tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8d9453ef017c379bf294970b 2013-03-12T22:38:04-04:00 2013-03-12T22:38:04-04:00 We have a moral obligation to educate ourselves about our world. President Eisenhower noted in Waging Peace that “few of us, because of our sketchy information about others, can think globally.” War, injustice, and poverty are not forces of nature;... Author A Dynamic Decade tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8d9453ef017c375bfca6970b 2013-03-06T11:36:14-05:00 2013-03-06T11:36:14-05:00 The decade from 2001 to 2011 contained an unusual pattern of events the impact of which is only now beginning to be realized. Major events which rattled our worldview regularly occurred every other year in that time period: 2001 of... Author Yes to Industrial Hemp in Kentucky tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8d9453ef017c36b1b720970b 2013-02-08T09:02:29-05:00 2013-02-08T09:02:29-05:00 Earlier this week Kentucky Educational Television hosted a lively discussion on Kentucky Senate Bill 50, which is designed to prepare Kentucky for the inevitable legalization of hemp production in the United States. Hemp production is currently illegal under Federal law,... Author So Much Media, So Little Time tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8d9453ef017c369bf479970b 2013-02-05T11:18:22-05:00 2013-02-05T11:18:22-05:00 One of the things I love about my job it keeps me in touch with people from all walks of life. As the CEO of my organization it’s my job to build and sustain relationships with our external partners. On... Author Kentucky Can Lead the Way tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8d9453ef017d3e78494f970c 2012-12-04T23:32:51-05:00 2012-12-05T09:43:00-05:00 On my way back from Iraq in 2006 I stopped over at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. That night I went to dinner with a couple of Army guys I had met on the plane. We were all struck by... Author The Many Uses of Useless Phrases tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8d9453ef017ee5df9f5e970d 2012-12-03T12:59:46-05:00 2012-12-03T12:59:46-05:00 Describing the conditions that led up to the devastating Peloponnesian War, historian Thucydides noted that in matters of politics and public opinion "the use of fine phrases to arrive at guilty ends was in high reputation." So it is today.... Author The Right Direction tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8d9453ef017c33e80b4e970b 2012-11-23T17:27:54-05:00 2012-11-23T17:27:54-05:00 We spend a lot of time rightly criticizing our elected leaders for steering us in the wrong direction, but we rarely offer them a coherent agenda on what we think will lead us in the right direction. So here it... Author