I just love confusing young people. It makes them think. At a family reunion last weekend, young relatives were talking politics, and one first-time voter asked if I liked Obama or McCain.   Read More »

If I see one more Iraqi diplomat on TV in an ill-­fitting suit, probably bought while in exile in case CNN called, stare wall-eyed into the cameras and pompously spout, Americans don t really understand   Read More »

I believe these are more serious times than the current crop of politicians seems to grasp. I'm not one to have gone the way of religion. I once asked a nun if she thought I had "the calling," She   Read More »