Tusquittee Chronicles  Part VI
I Am Five
I probably slept late on by birthday for I was not accustomed to getting up early and doubtless dad had already gone to work. Mother never forgot to butter a few biscuits for us while there were hot for we had biscuits for breakfast nearly all the time during my [...]

Part V Early Superstitions and Manners
By Claude R. Moss
SAN FRANCISCO–1953–Sometime during the late 1870’s, Nette Hancy, a girl of about ten years old came to live with us and stayed until the early part of 1884. While I was very young she would threaten me with “Raw Head and Bloody Bones” and tell me stories [...]

Like Abe, Claude was born in a log building
Part II
By Claude R. Moss
SAN FRANCISCO– 1953–On September 29, 1875, I was born in an old log house on middle Tusquittee and lived there for almost the entire period of my childhood. It wasn’t a very fine building, but we did have good floors and one glass [...]

The Tusquittee Chronicles
By Claude Russell Moss
In 1953, at the urging of his brother Fred, Claude Russell Moss wrote about what it was like growing up on Tusquittee during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. At the time the chronicle was written, Claude was retired living in San Francisco. Earlier, he had taught school in the [...]

“The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.” (Ronald Reagan)
The majority of the media says that the Tea Party and conservative Republicans won the debt limit standoff to reduce government spending.  Can someone explain how increasing the debt limit by a biggest [...]

“Giving money and power to the government is like giving car keys and whisky to teenage boys.” (P.J. O’Rourke.
Is the USA becoming a Third World Country? Earlier this year, former Morgan Stanley Managing Director and securities analyst, Mary Meeker, graded the USA, using essentially the same criteria that the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s [...]

Mark Twain once wrote “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly Native American criminal class except Congress. “  Many have seen this quote but few know that Twain was a Congressional reporter for three years. He knew of what he wrote.
President Obama presented his only written budget proposal [...]

Leaning Left
Jim Fitzgerald
If you think compromise is a dirty word, then you are opposed to a democracy. A democracy thrives on, even demands, compromise. If you believe that your beliefs should govern this country, then you have little respect for our founding fathers and their creation of checks and balances within government. When you demand [...]

Remembering the Old Courthouse
Have you just sat and focused your mind on the past? Can you believe what you see? There was no TV, no computer, no air travel, no internet, no Facebook, no theater, or no Wii! So what on earth did the young folks do? Well, there was church on Sunday and Wednesday [...]

Growing Up Between the Jail and The Courthouse Through The Eyes of a Child
Not many people can say they grew up in jail. Well, I did. My father was Sheriff Neal R. Kitchens, who served a total of twenty years as sheriff of Clay County. He went in to office first as a Deputy Sheriff [...]