Political

Today, Monday, we are honoring and celebrating the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Former President Ronald Reagan was the one who signed a bill at the White House Rose Garden back in November of 1983, creating this federal holiday. My gosh, this special holiday will be 20 years old come next year at this time...

It's Tuesday and that means I'm looking forward to going up to the Marias Heritage Center this evening to share some more Montana History with the residents. It looks like we'll be wrapping up Ruth McLaughlin's "Bound Like Grass" either tonight or next week...

According to the Saturday, December 24th New York newspaper, my friend Peter Franklin, the New York City Cab AND GAB driver transported Santa Claus around the world Christmas Eve, stopping in 171 countries overnight. I guess Santa used Pete because of some kind of labor dispute with his elves...

've got a fascinating interview coming up at 4:35 this afternoon (Thursday). My special guest will be New York Times bestselling author John Weisman. Weiman has penned "KBL; Kill Bin Laden" and what a story-behind-the-story it is. This book revels how the CIA discovered Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad and set up its own safe house to monitor it...

Remember the old movie line, "What's it all about Alfie"? Well, I'm not Alfie although I do look like the man who played the leadin the movie, Michael Caine. Seriously, check out my blog picture on the website. I want to know "what's this Black Friday" all about anyway...

t's not always "over the hills and through the woods we go to grandmothers' house" on Thanksgiving day. In fact, if you're as old as I am, granny's probably long dead and a little bit of your relatives goes a long ways if you catch my drift...

don't have to tell you how important our Empire Builder is up here on the Hi-Line. For that matter, nationally, Amtrak ridership continues to set records and many of their trains are running full. With the growing population, along with fuel prices, we need more, not fewer, trains...

hat's the title of New York Times bestselling author John Weisman" and Mr. Weisman is going to be my special guest on Thursday,  the first day of December  at 4:35 on the Puffman Show. Dan Rather says this book is "a stunner and a riveting read...

I hope so or you might not be reading my infamous "Puffman Blogs". My special guest later on this afternoon (Monday) at 4:35 is Jill Spiegel, author of the hit seminar "How To Talk To Anyone About Anything". Jill is an award-winning speaker and entrepreneur and has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show (I won't hold that against her...

I'm doing an interview this afternoon (Thursday) at 4:35PM about Sinatra's favorite watering hole and guess what? It wasn't the Dixie Inn! It was a joint down in Vegas named "Jilly's" that was a favorite Rat Pack hangout. My special guest this afternoon will be Rich Herschlag who's written the untold glamorous and brutal true story of the famous and the infamous...

I'm looking forward to returning to the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby tomorrow evening for another Tuesday evening of reading and sharing some Montana History with some of the Heritage Center residents. These days, you'll find me reading "The Doctor Wore Petticoats-Women Physicians Of The Old West" written by award winning screen writer Chris Enss...

One of the coolest books I have ever shared with the Tuesday evening Montana History group at the Marias Heritage Center is Ed Kemmick's "The Big Sky, By and By-True Tales, Real People and Strange Times in the Heart of Montana" and tomorrow afternoon (Friday at 4:35PM, Easy Ed is my special guest on the Puffman Show...