The Commission on Presidential Debates Did It Again

“There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the Republic into two great parties, each under its leader,” said John Adams, one of the framers of the Constitution. Those who watched the three presidential debates had every right to believe the...

Specifics Trump Rhetoric in Presidential Debates

Brian Lamb, founder of the C-Span cable network–commercial- and comment-free–broadcasts Congress and Senate sessions and keeps the public informed on Washington happenings. I always learn more from C-Span than all the spin that comes from the networks or...

What’s Really Behind the ‘Left Behind’ Novels

A fellow browser in a bookstore a few months ago asked me about the “Left Behind” novels that have set record sales in religious and secular bookstores the past few years. I don’t know where the fellow was coming from, but he was evidently disturbed...

A Nation of ‘Furners’

Dialect jokes are a thing of the past. I miss them because I never took them as being rude or disrespectful, but just a part the great variety of life that is all around us. Americans, except for the native aborigine, were all foreigners at one time. The nation was...