Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 88. Sunrise is 5:17 AM and sunset 8:28 PM for 15h 10m 40s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1965, America launches Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA…
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Daily Bread, Libertarians, Putin, Russia, Trump, War
Daily Bread for 2.25.23: Supporting Ukraine
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 38. Sunrise is 6:35 AM and sunset 5:39 PM for 11h 04m 15s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 32.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1948, in a coup d’état led by Klement Gottwald, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia…
Daily Bread, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, War
Daily Bread for 2.10.23: Russia One Year Later
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Daily Bread, Libertarians, Press, Radio, Russia, Ukraine, War
Daily Bread for 1.24.23: A Role for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 37. Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 4:58 PM for 9h 41m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 10.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6:30 PM and the Police & Fire Commission meets at 7 PM.…
Art, Daily Bread, Russia, Ukraine, War
Daily Bread for 1.14.23: After Russia Kills, It Steals
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be increasingly sunny with a high of 35. Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset 4:45 PM for 9h 22m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 55.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1952, NBC‘s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave…
Crime, Daily Bread, Fellow Traveler, Foreign Affairs, Fox News, Populists, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, War
Daily Bread for 12.22.22: Inside the Russian Unit That Killed Dozens of Civilians
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Daily Bread, Foreign Affairs, Russia, Ukraine, War
Daily Bread for 11.5.22: Crime Scene Bucha: How Russian Soldiers Ran a “Cleansing” Operation in Ukraine
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be windy, with morning showers and a high of 61. Sunrise is 7:35 AM and sunset 5:41 PM for 10h 06m 26s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 91.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1872, in defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony…
Daily Bread, Foreign Affairs, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, War
Daily Bread for 10.8.22: The Kerch Bridge
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 57. Sunrise is 7:01 AM and sunset 6:23 PM for 11h 24m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 97.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1871, the Peshtigo Fire devastates a Wisconsin community: On this date Peshtigo,…
Daily Bread, History, War
Daily Bread for 6.6.22: D-Day, Seventy-Eight Years On
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 70. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and sunset 8:30 PM for 15h 13m 57s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 38.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1944, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, begins with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred…
Daily Bread, Fascism, Language, Russia, Ukraine, War
Daily Bread for 4.25.22: ‘Ruscism’
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 45. Sunrise is 5:56 AM and sunset 7:49 PM for 13h 53m 16s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 28.2% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Unified School Board meets in open session at 5:45 PM, then enters closed…
Bad Ideas, Daily Bread, Foreign Affairs, Putin, War
Daily Bread for 4.9.22: Germany’s Failed Approach to Russia
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 46. Sunrise is 6:21 AM and sunset 7:30 PM for 13h 09m 31s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 52.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1959, NASA announces the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts,…
City, Culture, Daily Bread, Foreign Affairs, Freedom of Speech, Tantrums, War
Daily Bread for 3.3.22: A Ukrainian Family Prepares for War in Kyiv
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 33. Sunrise is 6:25 AM and sunset 5:47 PM for 11h 22m 10s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 0.9% its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM, and Whitewater Fire Department, Inc. holds a business meeting at…
Daily Bread, History, Terrorism, War
Daily Bread for 9.11.21: Twenty Years Later
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 90. Sunrise is 6:31 AM and sunset 7:10 PM, for 12h 38m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 24.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day twenty years ago, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks kills 2,977 people using…
America, Foreign Affairs, War
McCain on the CIA Torture Report
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Goodness knows libertarians have had countless differences with Sen. John McCain, on domestic and foreign policy. We could have no disagreement, however, with his condemnation of the CIA’s use of torture for interrogation of America’s enemies. Our politics – including the acknowledgment of our own ethical failures -should be of the highest standards. To use…