The current debate over guns can get entirely too emotional for rational discussion.  How can it be otherwise when, on the one hand, you have the parents of those whose children were killed at places like Newtown and, on the other, the owners of guns who cherish their firearms almost as much as they do […]

When President Obama defiantly stated last week that he absolutely will not debate Congress over raising the debt ceiling, he was trying to send a message not to his Republican adversaries but to the American people whose future is very much dependent on how that very debate is resolved.  It wasn’t exactly a knockout punch […]

As another new year begins, we again have the opportunity to reflect on the state of our collective consciousness.  What ails us?  What might be our cure? In my youth, I used to make a list of New Year’s resolutions, thereby following instructions from my mother, who always urged me to learn from my mistakes […]

Well, I guess we survived another doomsday prediction. For those who weren’t paying attention, the world was supposed to end on December 21.  That view was held by millions of folks who interpreted centuries-old Mayan writings to have predicted that precise date for the end of time.  It is hardly the first such prediction that has failed […]