My grandson Jonah has this great ability to deadpan some pithy and often very humorous comments; and the other day he quipped, “When we go back to school how are we supposed to maintain a social distance during our active shooter drills?”  Great thinkers throughout...

If you want to see the clearest examples of “systemic racism” in America look no further than our inner city schools where black kids have been receiving a substandard education for years.  If you doubt that allow me to ask, would you send your child to an inner city...

All of us come across pithy or aphoristic sayings and notions about happiness and living a successful life, and I’m no different.  So with COVID our constant companion and with the expected pre-election rancor and divisiveness permeating society, I thought I might...

“Hitting the boat” is an expression from the Naval Air Training Command in Pensacola Florida that refers to the first time an aspiring Naval Aviator (a flight student) lands an airplane on an aircraft carrier.  On Monday I wrote about THE most momentous event to ever...

An anomaly is something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.  For example Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, the rapid appearance of aging in childhood, is an example of a medical anomaly.  So just for fun I thought I take a look at a few...

Seventy five years ago this Thursday the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima; three days later Nagasaki was similarly bombed and the morality and necessity of using these weapons has been debated ever since. For some, nothing...

If someone wants to rail against, belittle or castigate a politician (which is usually the president these days) that’s his or her First Amendment right.  A burst of rage in the form of a few stinging sentences; a couple of passionate paragraphs or a little sarcasm is...

In case you’re wondering, when Joe Biden appeared on the Joy Reid Show last week, TV’s latest talk show host asked Mr. Biden what he would do differently regarding the Corona virus.  The former VP went on to list six items that he would do differently, to wit:. He...

According to USA Today, the NFL will play the black national anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before each Week 1 game. It kind of makes one wonder if Roger Godell and the NFL owners have ever heard of E Pluribus Unum. To eliminate the kneeling controversy or having...

When referring to the Black Lives Matter movement in a recent Federalist article, David Marcus wrote,”It’s difficult to understand why anyone would have any reason to disagree with something that’s so obviously right and true.”  Marcus followed that opinion suggesting...