This past weekend, Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville suggested in comments railing against reparations that Black Americans were “the people that do the crime.” Speaking at a Donald Trump rally for Republican candidates in Nevada, Tuberville described Democrats as engaged in a battle to take from white people and give to Black people, whom he […]

There is a definite “whistling past the graveyard” vibe in the air surrounding the Nov. 8 Congressional midterm election. The pursed lips belong to the Democratic Party leadership, who’ve spent the past few weeks confidently predicting their party will not only maintain control of the House of Representatives, but build on their majority. Their optimism […]

In response to massive battlefield setbacks, Russia has increased its attacks in Ukraine on everything from power plants and dams to railways, pipelines and ports. These attacks against civilian infrastructure are not random. Rather, they reflect an insidious calculus integral to modern Russian military theory. For more than 20 years, Russian military journals have emphasized the […]

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. a part of the main.” – John Donne After hurricane Ian smashed Florida’s Gulf Coast, I called my sister Martha who lives in Venice, Florida. As it happened, her husband Karl was recovering from heart surgery in a Sarasota […]

“Were you raised in a barn?” I never had the legendary Mrs. Montgomery as a teacher; but she was a senior class adviser and I needed her input on a school program script, so I made the rookie mistake of assuming her wide-open door meant I could forego the formality of knocking. Thus, the piercing […]