Many Americans like me fear we are losing the country we grew up in and had hoped or perhaps even assumed that we would pass on to our children, who would in turn pass it on to their children and grandchildren.  And there is no better illustration of just how we’re...

Has anyone noticed that during the recent campaigning whenever democrat candidates talked about their accomplishments, they always referred to the legislation they’ve passed by their high sounding but misleading names, i.e., the Inflation Reduction Act that doesn't...

A tell in poker is an almost imperceptible variation in a player’s behavior or actions.  Perhaps it’s a change in facial expression, an eye-movement, a subtle glance, a hand gesture, or timing that gives information about the strength or weakness of the player’s hand...

Sometimes I revive old commentaries or concepts from my days writing for the Vail Daily to see if my ideas or notions are still applicable.  And today I’m going to focus on a no-brainer that was quite a bit of fun to write.  It’s about an economic system that has...

The older I get the more I find myself thinking about some of the choices I made in life and how they have affected me to this day.  Why did I attend the University of Dayton and not De Paul University, and what would my life look like now if I had?  And how many of...

Before I moved to Vail some twenty odd years ago, my next-door neighbors in Denver had two sons, Tommy, and Kevin.  Tommy was your typical teenager, but Kevin was 30-year-old man who apart from his six-foot two-inch frame resembled an “adult” in very few ways – you...