Beginnings, Endings, and the Words in Between

You would feel that after so many centuries               God would give man to repent; yet he can kill As Cain could, but with multitudinous will, No farther advanced than in his ancient furies from “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment” by Richard Eberhart, 1944. When “peace” broke out last week in the Middle East, I avoided the temptation to be negative, to remind everyone that the Trump peace initiative was really the Biden peace initiative and that the only difference was that

Summarizing the current state of this country in as few words as possible, someone recently asked that question, and I’ve been...

The Democratic Party must have nothing to do with it. So I understand there’s a government shutdown. It’s kind of a pleasant break from...

In 2011, when Representative Gabby Giffords was shot at point-blank range, we were concerned for her very survival. More recently, the...

Lauren Vaughn was a teacher's aide in Spartanburg County (South Carolina) School District Five. In an online post, she shared Charlie...

For months I've feared that RFK Jr.'s control of the nation's health would, over time, kill or harm the well-being of untold numbers of...

So there was a significant funeral yesterday — like every other day — for the death of one human being diminishes us all, doesn't it? I'm...

There's not much drier than a CDC report—maybe that's why seriously limited amateurs like RFK Jr. and those who follow him and to whom he...

It could be a Simpsons episode: a drug addict with little or no formal knowledge of science or medicine and a woman with no real...

Until a few days ago, I had never heard of Charlie Kirk. Now that I know what he stood for, I can safely say that he and I would have...

Recently, we learned that a heroin addict appointed by a convicted felon had named a former speechwriter as acting CDC director. At one...

Among the literary works I taught when I was a high school English instructor was the dismal dystopian Ayn Rand novella, Anthem , a...

Not that many years ago, I attended an event for which I needed to show my papers. These "papers" were a white card proving that I had...

In the early 2000s—not exactly the heyday of Apple computers— I had a friendly discussion with a student over the relative merits of the...

"We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted," Those are the words of RFK Jr., the predatory, arrogant, addle-brained...

I had known very little about Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, until the great ice storm and power disaster of 2021. The known death toll...

The recent catastrophe in Texas has many contributors, from a town unwilling to accept a tax increase to install a warning system to the...

A new Civil War means more heroes...and more traitors. We are approaching the official beginning of America's second civil war. Ah hell,...

When someone fires a gun repeatedly into a crowd of people in support of a cause, let's call the act what it irrefutably is—murder. When...