Politics and college visits

So it's been awhile since I've posted. Life is busy with six kids.

Politics
I added a new link for melaniephillips. I find it interesting reading compared to the watered down nonsense that appears in the local papers. It seems to me the US is headed in the same direction if it isn't already there. I anticipate a bit more political commentary as the election approaches.

I have a good friend, Meg Ferber, who's going to be running for political office. An admirable endeavor, especially since she's a mother of 6, grandmother of around six, and is probably not considered by many to be an electable candidate. It seems to me we ought to have more citizens like her who take up the burden of promoting ideas that don't appeal to modern liberalism. She's a good conservative candidate, socially and fiscally. Will people vote for her? Catholics ought to, since she advocates the true Catholic position on most if not all issues. She understands social justice is more than socialism, in fact, is a contradiction to socialism. More on Meg later

College Visits
It's begun. My oldest daughter, a junior at Trinity School in Eagan, has made her first college visit to Benedictine college in Atchison Kansas. A nice school, smaller but nicely conservative with a good philosophy department, good music program, a nice campus life that takes its Catholic heritage seriously. It helps that she visited with a cousin, has a cousin already there, and several friends from Trinity that we ran into while visiting.

I don't know if she'll wind up their, but it's a standard by which other schools can be measured. Next visit for her is probably University of Chicago, quite a bit more secular but also considerably stronger academically. Other options might be St. Olaf, and the University of Portland. Now for that winning lottery ticket.