September 29, 2015

Bracketed presidential race taking shape

New polls are out that should help clarify the race based on my presidential “brackets” analysis.  First off, the NBC/WSJ poll for September shows big changes from its July one.  While Donald Trump still leads, his support ha...

September 22, 2015

Republican Presidential Madness

The GOP contenders are busy with debates, events, fundraisers and kissing babies (do they still kiss babies?), but there are just too many of them for most voters to keep track.  I’d like to offer my presidential brackets to make sense ...

June 15, 2012

National Road Responsibilities

This month, politicians patted themselves on the back during the unveiling of the National Road Monument in western Maryland.  As was pointed out, the National Road was the first entirely federally financed and built road. As a genealogist and O...