The Brunswick Police are to be commended for the manner in which they responded to and arrested two men who had threatened a couple recently. The police do have to make decisions, often quickly, about how to handle dangerous situations but how easily this one could have been handled differently and potentially more dangerously. The […]

The British attack on a group of colonials encamped on Breeds Hill took place 140 years ago, on June 17, 1775. The continental flag is depicted in a famous battle painting by John Trumbull whose focus was the mortally wounded Dr Joseph Warren who led the colonials at age 34. Also depicted is battle flag, […]

Passion is momentary; love is enduring. — John Wooden

This is the second column I’ve written about Deborah Loewenberg Ball, the dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Education. Ball believes the training that teachers get while they are in school needs to be drastically improved. Last year, I wrote about her effort to develop a professional training curriculum that would allow beginning […]

Here in the United States, we tend to make much ado about nothing, losing perspective of what is truly a hardship in the world. Other than genuinely pressing matters such as an outsourced economy and catastrophic immigration policy, our politics revolve around purely social topics, like gay marriage or abortion rights. This is not so […]