“What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?”Trump looked down and shook his head while this question was asked.“I think it’s a very nasty question. And I think it’s a very bad signal…

When the situation first developed with my daughter and son-in-law stranded in Morocco, and I sought to make people aware of their situation through social media, my reaction to the sophomoric, churlish, and idiotic comments about their plight, and that…

inconvenient [in-kuhn-veen-yuhnt] not easily accessible or at hand. Inopportune; untimely not suiting one’s needs or purposes. Let’s keep our wits about us and put this in perspective. The reality of this pandemic is a serious, but manageable health risk. There…

(Imagine if you will a classroom of the future. Eager students sit in awe of the old-style digital images of 2020. The mass hysteria outside a place once known as a Walmart illustrates the insanity of that era. A young…

*”Here begins the plague” is written in the register next to the entry for Oliver Gunne’s burial on June 11, 1564 one of the first victims of the plague that ravaged Europe back when the “treatment” for such illnesses was praying…

In our country today we find ourselves in the situation writer Issac Asimov described in his seminal work, Foundation. “…that frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore…

Hope for America The hope of America lies not in her great history or in the resiliency of her people, but in the ability of our system of government to survive regardless of the level of quality in our leadership.…

In 1729, Jonathan Swift, an Irish cleric better known for his work Gulliver’s Travels, wrote an essay entitled, “A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick”…

Music has always been a big part of my life. I’m sure that’s true for many people, I know it’s true for some of my friends. The music of our youth shapes us even to this day. It added color…

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans…” President John F. Kennedy  The winds of change—unstoppable and inevitable—course through these United…