Opinion

After this year’s state Republican convention, ongoing in Cheyenne, and reading reports of the happenings at the convention, it reaffirms my belief that our party is on a slippery slope that will lead our party to an undesirable place.
I’m concerned with the attempt of creating an “Affiliation Committee” whose sole purpose would be to decide if certain party members, elected Republican officials and officers, claiming to be Republicans are actually good Republicans.

Questions:
Q1. The largest U.S. territorial growth by area was the Louisiana Purchase. Which acquisitions were second and third?
Q2. What is the eight-letter science word for an unexpected change in the genetic sequence?
Q3. In which U.S. state did most of the research for the Manhattan Project take place?
Q4. What year did these events all take place:  Sally Ride in space, final episode of M*A*S*H, invasion of Grenada?
Q5. Who was the director of the 1975 blockbuster hit movie “Jaws?”

A recent decision to run away from home turned out to involve driving 14 miles short of 3,000 miles during a 27-day odyssey.