I have owned guns for most of my adult life. Always under lock and key, and never improperly stored, I paid meticulous attention to buying the best locks and safety apparatus that I could afford. The safe is impenetrable. The combination, known only to me. I do not talk to my children about guns as [...]

Late last night I received a note from someone who should have known better. “The Republicans,” she quite snottily exhorted, “are dead.” Odd that a middle aged intelligent, educated woman, perfectly capable of reading and without being hearing-impaired, would allow her brain function such fatal latitude. Or, was it a complete malfunction, while still heavily [...]

I have a long standing rule. If it’s enough to make me uncomfortable; it’s definitely not for any child to see. Not mine, not yours. I don’t need to wince. Well before that, I know if an issue or speaker might be inappropriate for a child. It’s called having good judgment, and I’m exceedingly sorry [...]

I watched over the weekend, with considerable interest, how in beleaguered Greece the electorate, so jaded by (largely self-inflicted) tyranny, decided to hand their country to an unfathomable mix of far left-of-center, sky’s the limit promise makers and far-right, crazed revelers–the latter, who actually feature the swastika as their emblem of choice. This, of course, [...]

Many of you might not know of the illustrious Ms. Hilary Rosen. She, of the extremist set, is one of the far left wing, lesbian-first, cadre of haters that will surely derail St. Barry of Obama’s re-election bid. Trust me. They can’t help themselves. In the continuing brouhaha south of the border, that was spawned [...]

It speaks volumes that the Republican nomination is so hotly contested: everyone knows its winner will stand against the most monumental failure since Jimmy Carter–and therein lies the allure. What if the President falters badly, can any Republican get elected? Even the worst of the Republican candidates are skilled debaters and very fast on their [...]

Imagine, if you will, a Massachusetts politician so dizzily wealthy that the common folk can’t relate to him. How does a quarter of a billion dollars grab you? Someone who has served his country by committing to the support of charity work like no other; someone who has redefined political leadership in his state; someone [...]

John Adams, one of the fathers of American confederation, once remarked about a fellow progenitor, Thomas Paine, that “…without the pen of the author of ‘Common Sense,’ the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.” Mr. Paine, who emigrated from England in 1774 to fight for a revolution which few truly understood, wrote [...]

The world became an even more fragile place in 2011. Good didn’t often trump evil. We endured war, pestilence, disease, murder, uprisings, Charlie Sheen and Kim Kardashian–since we’re to include all major disasters, even the insignificant ones. Well, you know what I mean… Picking the top news stories of the year wasn’t easy. There were [...]

In the latter part of the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Atticus is resigned to the fact that his arguments in support of Tom’s undeniable innocence have failed–as the all white jury convicts an innocent black man, despite clear evidence to the contrary. He folds legal briefs into a [...]