Miscellaneous

Referring to the existence of the secret government and the evolution of the national security state, one former U.S. president summed it up accurately and succinctly:...

Dear Joel, We live in the Rocky Mountains -- zone 4-- at an altitude of 7800 feet. We have a short, unpredictable growing season and a...

The Lenten season, Holy Week, and Easter make up the most important time of the year for Christians. Whether your church celebrates Lent or just Easter,...

Dear Joel, I've had the pleasure of reading most, if not all of your books, and find them insightful, witty, and funny.... and unfortunately sad when...

Hello Joel-This year I want to create a garden out of raised beds using concrete blocks (about three or four high). Besides using earthworms, do you...

As a writer and producer on the newly released documentary, A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995, this is my second article in a series I am...

Dear Joel, What resources do you recommend to help someone get started without getting ripped off? My wife and I live on 40 acres that we...

Popular literature frequently skirts the boundaries between truth and fiction. Many classic literary works have actually been thinly veiled allegories of contemporary or historical events, and...

Dear Joel,What should I do with a yard that contains an "arsenic content" of 12.5? (Lack of recall on exactly what the measurement reflects other than...

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a coalition of Muslim states in northern Africa (Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, and Tripoli) carried out a sustained military...