by Michael Leppert | Aug 18, 2022 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government
It’s time to have a heart-to-heart talk about truth, lies, facts and fiction. A whole new season of make-it-up-as-Trump-goes began last week. So, I felt obligated to share some research about how bad many of our countrymen, and yes, they are mostly men, have gotten in...
by Michael Leppert | Jul 17, 2020 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government
In his 2010 book, The Last Train From Hiroshima, Charles Pellogrino quotes a survivor of the infamous American bombing of Japan at the end of World War II. The description given was how those who survived did so by taking care of themselves. We often hear stories...
by Michael Leppert | May 29, 2020 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government, Pop/Life
What do you really know about the 1918 pandemic? Recent events have led me to learn a little about it, and based on my conversations, the little I have learned is measurably more than most. It is bizarre how little we know about what happened only a century ago, in...
by Michael Leppert | Jun 7, 2019 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government, Pop/Life
I ran into a friend on Tuesday night who disagrees with me on gun policy. Plenty of my friends do. Whatever. To keep it fresh, I have new reasons this time. Our gun laws need to be modernized. Most Americans agree. Pew Research published another telling report on the...
by Michael Leppert | Feb 16, 2018 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government
It has been one of those weeks, like so many other weeks in America. It started off with a big dose of optimism when former First Lady Michelle Obama visited Indianapolis. Her speeches are always positive and always uplifting. I found myself anxiously straining to...
by Michael Leppert | Feb 2, 2018 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government
How many of us have ever heard of a Canadian doctor named Henri J. Breault? Dr. Breault practiced medicine in Western Ontario and was the leader of a campaign to stop accidental childhood poisonings. Facing an epidemic of these poisonings, he first formed an alliance...
