Mike Keeler
MIKE KEELER: May 1774: The Empire Strikes Back
On May 13, 1774, a large vessel sailed into Boston Harbor. It wasn't a whaler, it wasn't a trading ship of any kind. It was the HMS Lively, a...
MIKE KEELER: One Big Bottle of DUH
Let us now praise the pandemic.It was poetic that on the 50th Anniversary of Earth...
MIKE KEELER: The Amazing Thing . . .
This past week’s solar eclipse up in the great north woods was pretty amazing, And...
MIKE KEELER: Spring 1774: Intolerable
In the aftermath of the destruction of the Francis Scott Key bridge this past week,...
Mike Keeler: Back in Daylight Spending Time
As we move into Daylight Savings Time, turns out the only thing we’re saving is...
MIKE KEELER: Welcome To Taxation Nation
You’re probably pretty grumpy right about now. And I’m here to explain why.The Founding Fathers were apprehensive from the beginning. They had just broken...
Mike Keeler: And So We Come to The Dead of Winter . . .
Most folks in my generation who grew up near New England or the Rockies – I can claim a bit of both – were...
MIKE KEELER: A Very Spicy Tale
We’re almost to the dead of winter. It’s time for a spicy tale.It starts one day long ago, on an island off the coast...
MIKE KEELER: Colorful Agrarian Symbol or Sign of The Witch?
OK, let's put Halloween behind us, enough with all that Druid-inspired mumbo-jumbo . . .Or . . .Take a drive through Pennsylvania farm country....
MIKE KEELER: A Matter of One Simple Word
On a grim morning such as this, perhaps folks in England can take heart that today is also an anniversary.217 years ago, England was...
MIKE KEELER: Getting Out (of) The Vote
We Americans hold these truths to be self evident: that government of the people, by the people, and for the people is the best...