Walk through any airport today and you’ll see pajama bottoms, sweatpants, and slippers.  And it’s not just younger travelers.  It seems as if comfort has become the default uniform of public life in America That’s not to suggest we return to the 1940s and ’50s, when...

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy informed the nation and the world he had imposed a naval “quarantine” around Cuba, signaling the United States would not tolerate the Soviet Union’s “offensive military buildup” in the Western...

One of the things I miss most about writing commentary for a public newspaper is reading the letters to the editor in response to one of my political opinion pieces.  Unfortunately, this website doesn’t allow for responses, but today I’m going ask a few questions in...

The teacher offered her class a simple story.  "A ship is sinking.  A husband and wife make it to a lifeboat, but there’s only one seat left.  The husband jumps in and the wife stays behind in the freezing water.  Just before the ocean takes her under, she shouts her...

English is a remarkable language, and I consider myself lucky to have grown up speaking it. Today, it also serves as the world’s primary lingua franca — a shared language that enables communication across borders and cultures. It has become the dominant tongue of...

The Second World War has always fascinated me for any number of reasons, and yesterday in honor of the attack on Pearl Harbor I wrote about ‘the carriers that weren’t there.’   And today I want to continue with the World War II theme and offer an opinion about the...

Eighty-four years ago today, on December 7, 1941, “a day that will live in infamy,” the United States was attacked by the naval and air forces of Imperial Japan—an event that plunged our nation into World War II.  It’s often been said that America was “lucky” none of...

Today we celebrate the 250th anniversary of founding of the United States Marine Corps – aka – the ‘Marine Corps Birthday’ that will be celebrated by both active-duty and former Marines the world over. I’m not going to write about the Corps’ glorious history of...