It has been quite a week in politics. On one side, the Democratic National Convention was very much a celebration of America. On the other side, the Republican nominee for president, pressed on the obvious support he is getting from Vladimir Putin, once again praised Putin’s leadership, suggested that he is OK with Russian aggression […]

A federal judge has ruled that John Hinckley Jr., the mentally disturbed man who tried to assassinate my father 35 years ago, will be set free. Many people, including members of my own family, think it’s a terrible injustice that Hinckley, now 61, will be allowed to leave the mental hospital and live permanently with […]

Replacing a Visual Obscenity Being born and raised in Bath, I have always considered it to be a beautiful city built on a mighty river. Therefore, when I came “home again” in 2005, I was surprised and disappointed at the reintroduction to my hometown. Why? Because, for the first time in many years, driving north […]

In 1714, Britain’s Queen Anne died at age 49; she was succeeded by George I. In 1876, Colorado was admitted as the 38th state. In 1907, the U.S. Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the U.S. Air Force. In 1913, the Joyce Kilmer poem “Trees” was first published in “Poetry: A […]