COMMENTARY

2021 I’ve had many friends tell me how unlucky I’ve been to have lost not one but two wives, one to cancer and the other to Alzheimer’s Disease. To the contrary; I feel like Lou Gehrig, “the luckiest man on the face of the Earth,” standing at home plate in …

Welcome to Witassic, Massachusetts. My Town. We’d have liked to have referred to it as Our Town, but some hamlet up in New Hampshire, oh, about 72 miles due north of here as the carrier pigeon used to fly, already laid claim to that nickname. Threatened to sue us if …

Justice delayed is justice denied, as the old saying goes. And in America nowadays swift justice is harder and harder to obtain. There was a time not all that long ago when justice was served in a timely fashion. In 1901, for example, President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz, was …

As the monthly countdown toward the 2020 election continued, I began to suspect more and more that for the losing party it would be a political Waterloo. It was an election – arguably the most important election since the Civil War era – neither party could afford to lose. After …

“As democracy is perfected, the Office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool …

2020 I am troubled by political polls. I believe they do serve a purpose, but only for internal use by political parties to gauge how well their ideas are being received by the people and whether or not they need to make adjustments to their policies and platforms. It’s when …

Regardless of the outcome of the 2020 election, and that Donald Trump will likely get in the neighborhood of 60 million votes even if he loses, we must confront the fact that we Americans are living in an increasingly sick society that threatens not just the fabric but the very …

Outside of the environment, the most lasting damage Donald Trump and his chief toady, Mitch McConnell, have inflicted on the American public are appointments to the Federal judiciary, now numbering nearly 200, and especially the Supreme Court appointments of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and possibly others before his presidency …

            I was reading one of those advice columns in the newspaper the other day. A woman who had been married to a man for 25 years was upset because her husband wanted to buy a motorcycle. She couldn’t fathom why a middle-aged man who had never ridden a motorcycle …