If gambling is OK, legalize across state
Today’s sermon, members of the choir, will be upon the twin topics of gambling and guns. Now, I know that people don’t like to...
Liberty must be balanced with order but not abandoned
Your 17-year-old daughter, diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, calmly but determinedly refuses chemotherapy.
Her refusal is not based on religious beliefs; she simply...
Free college for all not sound policy
President Barack Obama has proposed free community college for everybody in the United States.
At present, according to the American Association of...
CRUISER LIFESTYLE
Before we bought our catamaran and started cruising every winter, I had a vivid picture in my mind of cruising life. We would sail...
Touching the funny bone with a single quotation
What makes great one-liners?
They are often wonderful insights, plays on words or misdirections in thinking. Below are just a few of...
Author’s tomes on good governing must-reads for all elected officials
I learned about the book “In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government” through an article in Reason magazine leading up to the 1992 election.
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Congress under pressure to recuperate from abject failure
With the 114th Congress just underway, the political world is focused intently on the road ahead. Taxes, trade, immigration, climate change, job creation, the...
The brightest light of them all
Fifteen years ago, Joe Saba interviewed me when I was a candidate for editor of the Daily Journal.
At the time, he...
Tales of a tail offer lessons for coming year
With subzero wind blowing in, I was wrapped up in a few blankets one evening wondering what this year would bring.
Looking...
Unplanned experiences make life interesting
My first two columns introduced you to the cruising life. Now you know about the boat we live on in the winter and a...