Well, my predictions are only fair so far. Three of my four NFL picks won. I thought I got it right on Ron Paul being invited to the Fox debate too when I watched part of what turned out to be a replay of Saturday’s ABC’s New Hampshire presidential debates. There was Ron Paul in the debate. But the Fox debate was Sunday, and Ron Paul was not invited at the last minute as I had hoped.

If you watched the ABC TV debate, you saw both John McCain and Fred Thompson smirking and almost laughing as Ron Paul answered questions, even though Paul’s answers about America’s bullying foreign policy and reasons for inflationary health care costs were right on target as far as I’m concerned. For you Libertarians hoping Paul will be able to change the Republican Party from within, you’re going to have a long wait. The Republican Party wants nothing to do with Ron Paul, or with Libertarian ideas.

Ice storm

Football was more enjoyable to watch anyway. A very wet snow blocked my satellite reception for the second half of the Giants game so I missed seeing most of Eli Manning’s heroics. But that’s okay; my three boys got to play in the snow. We have an ice storm on our mountain right now. I drove one of my sons’ friends part way down the mountain to meet his mother because I knew she wouldn’t be able to make it all the way to our house in her two-wheel drive vehicle.

Claire Wolfe

Claire Wolfe emailed me her article for the March/April issue today. Great piece of writing. Claire’s articles for the print issue of Backwoods Home Magazine seem to me to be very different from her impressive internet writings over the past few years. They are, I think, more personal, and they add a new dimension to the magazine as well as to her writing. She is less political, more into living her own life. If you’re a Claire Wolfe fan, and I know there are legions of you on the internet, you should check these new articles out. If you’d like to read a couple from our last few issues, click here  and here .