A month before leaving public life, I published a critique on the media.  At a retirement gathering soon after,  a reporter asked why I’d waited until leaving office to share my views. Previously, I’d written other papers –one on property taxes and the other on Grand Jurie

Most of us remember January 6, 2021, when Republican Senator Josh Hawley raised his fist to indicate support for insurrectionists gathered outside the Capital.  Many of his fellow Americans were shocked by his gesture, but not all.  Recently, Hawley felt enough wind at his back to t

Reading the news these days is like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer and trying to enjoy it.  Threats to human existence lie all about us. The one plus in the West is the existence of a free press. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited

There are two occasions when a person ought to reflect upon the words of John F. Kennedy’s: Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. The first is during a time of war when citizens are asked to defend their nation.  The second occurs in a perio

While I support Hillary Clinton for president of the United States, it’s a fair question to ask how she and her opponent, having among the lowest approval ratings in history for the office, came to be the sole survivors vying for this high office.  What does their ascendancy say ab

On Christmas eve I attended an annual luncheon with a few close friends and sat talking with a young woman whose career was in health services. “Can you imagine?” she asked, turning her wide, blue eyes in my direction. “People are making such a fuss over the NSA instead of the c