I wrote in an earlier column that the debates among the presidential candidates were a waste of time, simply because after listening to 90 minutes or so of rhetoric, we really didn’t learn anything substantial about the candidates. That was then. This is now. Since all but two in the Democratic race dropped out, we have [...]

McCain’s in, Romney’s out and Huckabee’s hoping. On the Dem side, it’s still a battle between Black Barack and Hispanic Hillary. It all seems, if you believe the pundits — and why wouldn’t we, right? — that it’s all going to come down to which of these two combatants will attract most of the white [...]

Watched the debate tonight between Democratic presidential hopefuls Obama Barack and Hillary Clinton, followed by an hour of pompous pundits giving their views on how each of them saw it in terms of who scored the most points. Overall, it seems that both Obama and Hillary, acting as though they were each other’s new best friend, [...]

We are spending trillions on a war that should have ended before it began when we toppled Saddam Hussein. Our government wastes billions of dollars each year on frivolous, or at the very least, unimportant projects. All this while 36.5 million Americans — that’s 12.3 percent of the population — lived in poverty last year. [...]

The results of tonight’s primary in New Hampshire will hopefully give us a clearer picture of who will still be considered contenders in the race for the White House. But I wouldn’t hold my breath. On the GOP side, it looks like McCain and Romney will end up 1-2 and it’s a toss-up who will [...]

The Iowa caucus is now in the history books and we move on to New Hampshire. I guess the only real surprise in Iowa was the margin of victory by both Obama and Huckabee over their respective second-place finishers — Edwards and Romney. The biggest winner, however, was Iowa, that saw the number of people who [...]

Thank God it’s finally arrived. I’m talking about the Iowa caucus. I don’t think I, or any other Americans, could take more of the campaign coverage. Bad enough having to listen to the talking heads on cable rehashing every word that was ever said over the past six months by every one of the presidential [...]

It’s a new year and let’s hope it’s better than the last one. 2007, with an ongoing war in Iraq with no end in sight; natural disasters that uprooted thousands of lives and caused immeasurable damage; unprecedented violence in our schools; a housing crisis that may still send us into a recession; and a federal [...]

As we near the end of 2007, it’s probably as good a time as any to look back over the past year at some of the major issues that we faced and still face, hoping that 2008 may bring a change. I have listed those that I feel, if solved, can make for a much [...]

Novelist Jeffrey Archer in his work The Fourth Estate made this observation: “In May 1789, Louis XVI summoned to Versailles a full meeting of the Estate General. The First Estate consisted of 300 clergy. The Second Estate, 300 nobles. The Third Estate, 600 commoners. Some years later, after the French Revolution, Edmund Burke, looking up [...]