The Shady Nook Cafe - The Middle of America
The Shady Nook Cafe was located inside the Shady Nook Truck Stop, just west of Kearney, Nebraska near the 1733 Ranch and the 1733 mile marker for the Lincoln Highway. The middle of America was first located at the half-way point between Boston and San Francisco along the Lincoln Highway - the first trans-American highway. The Shady Nook Cafe was 1733 miles from Boston and 1733 miles from San Francisco. Most political pundits aspire to pander their comments to the extremes of the various political parties, thinking the left-wingers and the right-wingers held the keys to nominations, and thus the political power base. However, this thinking has left America damaged from the division and political rhetoric of the extremists, while Middle America has been ignored and excluded from debates over political issues and governmental policy. Candidates who obtain their party's nominations pander to those extremes, only to suffer from whiplash in trying to then court the Middle of America - which really determines the winner of each Presidential election. This blog will attempt to address political topics from the rational middle, where common sense, rational thought, and concerns about "doing the right thing" for the "best interest of the country" dominate over pandering to special interests, Euro-centric liberalism, the religious extremes, or the liberal dominated mass media. Come in to the Shady Nook Cafe, get a cup of coffee, and let's chat about America - from the Middle.
