Meet Leslie Boyd, reporter with the Asheville Citizen-Times. On June 20, Ms. Boyd was the keynote speaker at the WNC for Change Healthcare Reform Rally held at Pritchard Park in Asheville. (Photo here.) She was also the Asheville Citizen-Times photographer for the event. This evening, July 23, at 5:30 p.m., Ms. Boyd is scheduled to speak at the R.E.A.L. [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 20, 2009
Helianthus Bowl
Finished this up today, hope to get $120 retail for it.
It’s about 13 inches across, and two and one half inches deep.
July 19, 2009
Heintooga to Cherokee
Last week we drove up the parkway to Heintooga again. Didn’t see any elk this time but we almost got stuck behind these animal lovers. Luckily they turned around.
It was a pretty clear day, but a few clouds were bumping into the mountains.
Pete likes the cool air.
Oenothera or Evening Primrose were blooming.
Not sure what this [...]
July 16, 2009
A New Bowl
My forge can’t handle anything much wider than seven inches in width, so I had to come up with a way to make a big bowl out of small pieces.
The result:
July 16, 2009
On Shearing Sheep
For the wheat farmer, electrical contractor, and 20-person law firm, the strategic calculus now goes something like this: “I think I just lost about 20 percent of next year’s income to pay for more income, health-care, state, sales, and payroll taxes, so I won’t be buying that tractor, doing any more Saturday jobs, or hiring [...]
July 16, 2009
Punitive Liberalism
From the time of John Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 to Jimmy Carter’s election in 1976, the Democratic party was gradually taken over by a bizarre doctrine that might be called Punitive Liberalism. According to this doctrine, America had been responsible for numerous crimes and misdeeds through its history for which it deserved punishment and chastisement. [...]
July 12, 2009
Environmentalism seeks to return us to the age of kings.
Beginning with FDR, wily statists justified the massive expansion of federal power under ever more elastic definitions of the commerce clause. For Obama-era control freaks, the environment and health care are the commerce clause supersized. They establish the pretext for the regulation of everything: If the government is obligated to cure you of illness, it [...]
