One of the many curiosities packed into the $2.3 trillion omnibus spending and coronavirus-relief package passed by congress was a stipulation requiring the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to deliver an unclassified report...

Friends, many of my comments below were in last week's blog but, they didn't make it into the Vail Daily, so, I've repeated some of them here since this is what appears in today's Vail Daily. The reason socialism has never worked anywhere it’s been tried is because in...

It’s a given that the kids attending inner city schools are not receiving the same quality of education as say, those attending Eagle County schools. Yet due to affirmative action, after being denied the opportunity receive a quality education in both grade and high...

Recently physicists at MIT and the State University of New York confirmed that the surface area of two black holes was maintained after the two entities merged, which was predicted by both Einstein’s theory of general relativity and Stephen Hawking’s work at Cambridge...

Newcomers tell me how they marvel at the seeming “agelessness” of valley, and how the limitless outlets for physical activity helps delay, prevent, and even manage many costly, chronic illnesses.  And while physical activity is critical to our wellbeing, it’s also...

Many believe the most pressing problem facing the nation today is the rising crime rate, where preliminary FBI data points to the largest single year increase in murders since the agency began publishing this data 60 years ago.  Meanwhile, cities across the U.S. have...

Do you recall when you first became consciously aware of color?  I do, my ‘awareness’ of color was accompanied by my first box of Binney & Smith Crayola Crayons—all eight of them.  But that was a millennia ago; today Crayons come in at least 124 colors including...

Education Week Magazine described Critical Race Theory as an academic concept embracing the core idea that racism is a social construct; that it is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies. The...

A close long-time personal friend has a problem getting his letters-to-the-editor published for two reasons - first, the editor won't print anything longer than 200 words and getting a meaningful political message across in less than that is difficult and secondly, my...