Turns out Donald Trump’s checkered past is almost as interesting as his current foray into Republican presidential politics. Trump has...

Need a movie recommendation this weekend? Join Elwood P. Dowd and his buddy, Harvey, the invisible – except to Elwood – 6’3″ rabbit. The...

Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn recently made their second trip to Cuba. Carter also went in 2002. Both trips,...

I’m not sure what to be more shocked about this morning: the breaking news that long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans may have to endure more...

If you’ve ever been to the ballpark in Baltimore – Oriole Park at Camden Yards – and loved it as I have, you have William Donald Schaefer...

A friend of mine has always said he never feels more patriotic than on the day he files his tax return and most years ships off a check...

The last time one of the two major parties nominated a real businessman for president was more than 70 years ago. It was 1940, the world...

Is There a Lesson Here? For the first time ever the United States Congress is acting to legislatively remove a species from the...

The late, great Baseball Commissioner Bart Giamatti once said one of the important things he learned by working on the inside of baseball...

The guy in the photo is Lynn J. Frazier. He was the first public official in the country removed from office by recall. It happened in...

Tough Session Draws Tough Reviews Idaho Democrats have called the just completed legislative session “the worst in memory.” Republicans,...

Potentially one of the side benefits to come from the budget deal struck late Friday was the development of a modicum of trust among...

As the first anniversary of the controversial national health care reform legislation – or more correctly health insurance reform...

In celebration of National Poetry Month – I love that poetry month coincides with the start of the baseball season – a great little poem...

I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to travel a fair amount – Europe several times, South America, Canada – and after every trip...

I used to think it old fashioned that my dad always wore a hat. He had a gray one, a brown one, I think, and I vaguely remember a dapper...

The truly amazing thing about the “no fly zone” policy adopted over the last few days by the United States and the United Nations is not...

The “war to end all wars” didn’t. In fact the case can be persuasively made that what before World War II was commonly called “the great...

When the shipyard electrician Lech Walesa led the trade union movement in Poland in the 1980’s, he and his movement – Solidarity – were...

On This city in the Sonoran Desert has been our adopted “second city” now for more than ten years. We have come to love the place,...