Recently I had an experience that truly saddened me.  It occurred at my local pharmacy when a woman who I didn’t immediately recognize said hello to me.  Trying to gloss over that fact that I couldn’t quite recall her name I said, “Oh hi, I didn’t recognize you with...

Attendant to the Christmas season comes the inevitable search for that perfect gift.  Now I don’t know if there actually is such a thing as a “perfect gift;” nonetheless, many years ago I heard a story about a gift that comes pretty darned close to describing one, and...

OK ~ so impeachment and all things political are occupying the news, but it's the holiday season and enough is enough, at least until the after the first of the year.  Besides, trying to have a reasoned discussion about Trump with a liberal is akin to making a square...

A demonym is any name derived from a place that helps describe people who live there.  Californians are people who live in California; Frenchmen live in France, and so on.  But all demonyms aren’t created equal. For example, the United States has been accused of...

A new California law mandates that by the end of 2019, public companies with an executive base in California must have at least one woman on its board of directors.  The law also mandates that by 2021, those numbers must increase to a minimum of 3 female directors if...

We have some road construction going on here in Edwards, Colorado—a new roundabout and the widening of two small bridges.  Two aspects of the project, the roundabout itself and the bridge over the Eagle River appear to be proceeding on schedule, but the construction...

The democrats love to bandy about the idea that nation is in crisis.  We're not in crisis.  Things are messy.  The Founders intended that the gears of our democracy grind slowly.  We've had one constitutional crisis, and that occurred in 1861 when we fought a Civil...

It wasn’t all that long ago that the president told the United Nations General Assembly, “The free world must embrace its national foundations.  It must not attempt to erase them or replace them.  The future does not belong to globalists, the future belongs to...

On May 16, 1918, the United States Congress passed the Sedition Act, a piece of legislation designed to protect America’s participation in World War I.  The Act was aimed at socialists, pacifists and other anti-war activists and imposed harsh penalties on anyone found...