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In these times of struggle and doubt, as we arrive upon the eve of Independence Day, one major question lingers in the hearts of every red-blooded American.
In the latest of many cynical and highly political moves, the House of Representatives last week passed a measure that would transform the District of Columbia and make it the 51st state.
This is the sixth edition of my “New Regular” series. No one’s seen hide nor hair of normal — old or new — since March 15.
Even before Chicago’s carnage-infested Father’s Day weekend was finished, the predictable emails from readers began to flow in.
President Donald Trump’s speech Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a toxic stream of consciousness that ignored a great opportunity to speak words of healing and unity to a divided nation.
So now, the Supreme Court is in charge of the nation. It has scuttled the separation of powers while taking over the prerogatives of Congress and the executive branch. We have an oligarchy unaccountable to the rule of law while answering instead to confused ideologies, the mood of the moment…
As the father of an adult daughter and son, plus the grandfather of four knucklehead boys (Hurricane, Tornado, Crash and Train Wreck), I’ve learned some things about love.
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What a relief. Monday’s Supreme Court decision that protects Americans from being fired because of sexual orientation actually turned out to be fair. Even better, I agreed with it.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled a plan to make reforms in police departments and acknowledged for the first time the existence of “systemic racism.” He also promised to meet with some African American families whose relatives have been killed by police officers.
It is a gift, as Robert Burns wrote, to see ourselves as others see us.
New York Daily NewsPresident Donald Trump says he has a good buddy across the ocean in Boris Johnson. The U.S. president, who professes to believe in law and order, should pick up the phone, dial the U.K.’s prime minister and tell him that a Brit with possible knowledge of crimes committed a…
It has been quite an adventure, the last six years or so in America.
No other single group does more to benefit America than Main Street businesses. And no other has a greater stake in the stability of their communities.
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A lot of people are missing sports these days.
I’d say the chances of the Legislature returning for a special session this year are 50/50.
On October 26, 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke to a mostly African American audience in Charlotte, North Carolina. He said: “Every African-American citizen in this country is entitled to a government that puts their jobs, wages and security first ... I will not let you down. …
Among the powerful images generated by two weeks of protests, few are more disturbing than scenes of young Americans smashing storefront windows, rushing through broken glass and stripping businesses.
This is the fifth installment of my New Regular series. No one’s seen “Normal” since COVID-19 took it out months ago.
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I read this week that NASA reported a 150-foot asteroid is hurtling toward Earth.
When the coronavirus reached the U.S. and the cascade of lockdown and shelter-in-place orders began, the joke on social media was that America was going to have a COVID-19 baby boom around Christmas.
This is the fourth edition of my “New Regular” series, focusing on the post-pandemic marketplace. “Normal” curled up in a whimpering, fetal position four months ago.
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Well coronavirus, now you've gone and done it: you've hurt the Mafia!
They don’t know what they are doing. That’s what President Barack Obama said about U.S. leaders in charge of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. He was giving online speeches at commencement events around the country with discomforting rhetoric, but was nicer than usual. He mentioned no names.
This is my Memorial Day column with a coronavirus pandemic component, which we’ll get to in a minute.
When President Donald Trump sounded in a recent gaffe as though he were suggesting disinfectant “by injection” might be a dandy treatment for the coronavirus, the five-alarm backlash suggested he should stay away from giving medical advice. Instead, he has doubled down.
In the pantheon of great lines suitable for induction into Bartlett’s “Familiar Quotations” is Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 2010 comment about Obamacare: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
Every few years I write a column about the United States Postal Service. In 2009 I just about wrote it off. That year the Postal Service faced a $7 billion revenue shortfall, and 700 post offices were slated for closure.
This is the third installment of my New Regular series (seen anything normal lately?). The first was about customer expectations and cheese, the second one was about paradigm shifts, tiny and not so much. The goal is to establish perspective and maintain focus on whatever is coming at us in …
Did President Donald Trump care a bit less about the coronavirus pandemic after he found out who was getting sick?
For three years former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was put through a legal and financial wringer by top officials within the FBI, including its then-director James Comey. The FBI investigation threatened to destroy Flynn’s career, finances and life, as, according to the New York …
The TV was turned on to a news show and I was fooling around with something else and thought I heard the newscaster say, “Coming up next, the ‘murder hornet,’ now president in the United States for the first time.” I puzzled over it for a minute and realized she had actually said, “now prese…
This is the second column in my “New Regular” series (“normal” checked out in February). The focus is on how familiar, pre-pandemic customer relationships are likely to morph into less familiar post-pandemic customer behavior and expectations.
On the seventh weekend of my family’s self-isolation in the coronavirus pandemic, my true love said to me, “When are you picking up dinner?”
Even if the sexual assault allegations by former Joe Biden staff member Tara Reade turn out to be false there are still problems the former vice president faces.
Historians will someday puzzle over the head-scratching ironies of the Trump presidency.
These are rough days on Main Street. Business owners are experiencing extreme stress and anxiety, unprecedented in cause, abruptness, velocity and impact.
Inequality — that’s the foremost issue for so-called progressives these days, and here is what it means in their compassionate souls: not inequality under the law, which would be abhorrent in a just society, but inequality of income. Somehow they seem to think that some people having more mo…
America’s small business sector is currently on an emotional roller coaster. Let me tell you a story about how far back we have to go — over 240 years — to find comparable unprecedented circumstances imposing similar anxiety on Main Street.
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The coronavirus is on everyone's mind. It seems there is no escaping hearing and thinking about it.
The World Health Organization is a Chinese toady. When the coronavirus broke out in China, and after the nation had some time to assess the facts, it did not share them and lied to the U.N. agency. The truth would not serve China’s purposes, and even after the agency itself had been treated …
America is fortunate to have two marketplace sectors that also happen to be unique in the world: 28 million small businesses and 5,000 community banks. Let me tell you a story about why we’re all even more fortunate — especially during a pandemic — that these two groups are next-door neighbo…
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Well there is one silver lining to the coronavirus outbreak.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced public schools will be closed for the rest of the academic year due to the coronavirus. More mayors and governors will likely make similar announcements, if they have not already done so.
My six-month postpartum checkup got canceled this week.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve written recently about Black Swans, maintaining perspective and anticipating government assistance. Today, it’s about attitude.
America’s Founders regarded a free press as so vital to the new nation that they took care to include that right in the First Amendment to the…
Dothan Eagle on Gov. Kay Ivey’s response to the pandemic as coronavirus cases increase:
This weekend Americans will celebrate Independence Day, but it will be a commemoration like no other in recent memory.
Bibb Graves’ name is not on college buildings throughout Alabama because of slavery or the Confederacy. Bibb Graves’ name is on those building…
There must be two mindsets taught at the police academy — aggressive toward black citizens, passive toward white citizens. Racism must be a pa…
In his June 24 “Another View,” Cal Thomas implies that we evangelicals should reject the president because of his rough language. While I wish…
Joe Biden is claiming to have graduated from college at the top of his class. This is false. Yet Donald Trump did indeed graduate at the top o…
I cannot understand why the city of Florence would pay for a survey on Pine Street around UNA. If those students had sense enough to go down t…
Liberal Democrats don’t like Fox News because they are telling the truth about them and all the underhanded things they’ve done. So many peopl…
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