Four new flashes

I saw two robins hopping along a branch outside my window today February 26th in Ohio.

Andrew Jackson believed in a limited federal government, a debt-free nation and a country in which the people, acting through the states more fully and frequently than through Washington, made a large number of important decisions about public affairs, BUT President Obama is undoing these three foundational principles in America. Though not a great orator, Jackson knew the most enduring political rhetoric inspires and instructs, lifting an audience outside its natural selfish cares to see how a certain course will, in the end, serve a nation and its people well. President Obama’s oratory unfortunately has inspired Americans to follow him, his Cabinet and liberal his Congress down the socialist, European path.

Rifle means furrow as in to cut a spirally grooved bore in a firearm. In an unrelated ephemera, some bone china originated from the ground up bones of American bison.

A local basketball coach reminds an interviewer that "I’ve got a lot of progress in those guys," referring to fellow assistant coaches, His host agrees with his comment because "there’s a lot of time there for a long time."