11/20/25
Thanksgiving gets short shrift these days. The Christmas commercialism colossus, burgeoning every year, now occupies a super-sized chunk of November that used to be the province of the Thanksgiving holiday. [...]
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Posted November 20, 2025in Morain
Posted November 13, 2025in Morain
11/13/25
By the time you read this column, it may be irrelevant. I hope so. But I doubt it. Assuming the federal government is still partially shut down by the column’s [...]
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Posted November 06, 2025in Morain
11/06/25
Kathy and I live in an old house in Jefferson (apparent construction year 1901). It’s the house my parents bought in 1944, and it was my childhood home. My folks [...]
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Posted October 30, 2025in Morain
10/30/25
When ideology takes top priority, America’s world leadership is in jeopardy. The Trump administration’s threats to academic freedom at leading American universities could slow the pace of the nation’s scientific [...]
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Posted October 16, 2025in Morain
10/16/25
As I write this column on Sunday, October 12, the United States government is still shut down. Federal employee are not getting paid. No, wait, that’s not quite true. MOST [...]
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Posted October 09, 2025in Morain
10/09/25
Kathy and I returned last Friday from three days in the Black Hills, communing with two of my graduate school former housemates and their spouses. It’s a reunion that takes [...]
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Posted September 25, 2025in Morain
09/25/25
Last March, six months ago, Congress averted an impending federal government shutdown by reaching a bipartisan compromise, which extended the government funding deadline by six months, to the end of [...]
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Posted September 18, 2025in Morain
09/18/25
A CALL FOR RADICAL MODERATION Another political leader killed, and another frustrating challenge on what to say, what to do. Charlie Kirk’s death resurfaces similar tragedies from our American past, [...]
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Posted September 11, 2025in Morain
09/11/25
Why does Congress even bother to debate an annual budget? Every year members of the federal legislative body spend innumerable hours in committees and on the House and Senate floor [...]
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Posted September 04, 2025in Morain
09/04/25
College football is here once again, and fans are geared up to cheer on their treasured favorite(s). What stokes such ferocious lifetime loyalty to a bunch of guys playing a [...]
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