For all too many Americans, the announcement that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens would be retiring at the end of the Court’s current term probably fell into the category of “so what?” news.  The Court is the most under-rated branch of government under the system of checks and balances that is part of […]

            So much has been said by both sides of the American political divide about the new health care system that Congress finally approved last month that a clear understanding of the new law might seem impossible to attain.              On the one hand, it is hysterically described as the beginning of the end of […]

            Call me a dinosaur, a romantic, a kid at heart or an inveterate dreamer, but I can’t help getting excited when the winter sports finally give way to (or at least make room for) talk of pitching matchups and pennant races.  Baseball has changed over the years, but it is still the single game […]

“Here comes the sun; “It’s been a long, cold, lonely winter. “Here comes the sun; “It seems like years since it’s been here. Here comes the sun; here comes the sun, And I say, it’s all right.” -George Harrison              It happens every year, of course, and, give or take a few weeks, it happens […]