You can see them walking singly, in pairs, or in large groups, moving like zombies, looking down at their cell phones as if in a trance. They cross lawns and driveways, step into moving traffic, roam through parks and college campuses, and enter...
Today, I am celebrating my birthday. I don’t feel as old as the calendar says but then again who needs calendars. I have seen a lot in my days. We have a lot of great technological advances today but our society is not as strong nor stable as it was...
One needn’t be a curmudgeon to perceive that more and more adults are behaving like spoiled children these days. Wanting their own way and demanding that others give it to them. Expecting courtesy from others but refusing to extend it to those...
If it were up to you, as a patriotic American, would you choose for the United States to be the most militarily- powerful nation in the world, the wealthiest country, the most technologically-advanced nation, the most culturally-influential country...
I am troubled by the term “American exceptionalism.” Those who know me will find this odd because I love my country, my eyes still fill with tears when I hear the national anthem, and I thank God that I was born here. What is more, I believe no...
America has undergone a dramatic cultural shift in the short space of a half-century. The 1960s celebrated freedom from the restraint of traditional morals and mores and celebrated open-mindedness and diversity. Among the guiding principles of that...
Like a macabre mixture of an Edgar Allen Poe tale and a Bob Dylan lyric, the House of Obama is teetering in the wake of its self-created winds of change, transformation and decline. Yet in the face of America’s diminution the president appears more...
