Song Sung Blue

by Paige Bennett
I am a cradle Republican and proud of it. I was born 62 years ago in Logan, West Virginia .I am a third generation republican. My favorite toy as a child was a stuffed elephant that I named Ellie and loved dearly. Ellie was life size when I was four and I hugged her so tight her head was in danger of falling off. She got lost somehow along the years, but I have never forgotten Ellie or the symbol she has become for me. I knew from that age that elephants represented the GOP and I needed to hold on for fear of loss.

My grandmother often talked of the “dirty Democrats”. Imagine my surprise when in 1960 during the Kennedy- Nixon election I learned that the name of the party was simply Democrats. But West Virginia was and still is a Democrat state and during that 1960 election Logan County became “famous”, making national headlines . They were selling their vote to Kennedy for a pint of whiskey. So maybe my grandmother was right about the dirty part. . .

A rose by any other name

By Paige Bennett

There was an article in the Examiner on the 21st of June about ACORN and their ‘new name.”

When I first started to write about this I thought well I do not know anything about ACORN. My second thought was – who does? And that is the way this organization wants it to be.

Ok, so what is an acorn? It is a small nut which once planted grows into a huge oak tree. This little nut is planted deep and is unseen by the human eye. The huge tree that grows is seen, but has many branches and some are obscured by other branches. This large tree drops nuts to the ground that are planted and the cycle continues.

Health Care?

by  Paige Bennett
Health Care?
I am a baby boomer and only three years from being of Medicare age.  I have been very fortunate in that I have been very healthy so far. As I go into the so called golden years I know the odds of my continued good health are against me.  When I have [...]