The pandemic…the sickness, over-crowded hospital emergency rooms, overworked and burned-out doctors and nurses, the daily fight to convince people that the vaccines are safe and work, the reality that 40% […]

There is an on-going attitude sweeping through the veins of our society that will be as deadly as Covid-19. That attitude suggests that based on good intentions, America can re-balance […]

DOWN FOR THE COUNT? At first glance the melon looks like a white honeydew. But look again and the skin is not honeydew smooth but pebbled like a cantaloupe. Inside […]

“We’re from Texas, what country you from”? For years there was a TV ad for Ford’s F150 truck which featured a rough, tough-looking cowboy asking that uniquely Texas question. The […]

THE DIVIDE When did the celebration of ignorance become part of America’s exceptionalism? When did we begin to ignore the truths found in scholarship, science, education, knowledge, authority, humanity, experience, […]

IN THE BEGINNING… there was a cement-tough, Queens born, Sicilian baseball player, a minor leaguer who gave it up after a severe injury and became a neighborhood lawyer. He worked […]