Too often in America, political parties are accused of having no new ideas, and too often that’s true. So when a political party does come forward with a genuinely game-changing initiative, they deserve our respect and appreciation for contributing meaningfully to the debate, regardless of the merits of their suggestion. …

I like to watch a good sporting event as much as the next guy. Roller Derby is an obvious favorite, but “Bowling for Dollars” can be fun! And I can’t begin to count the number of hours I’ve spent watching the Titans of Peruvian Curling keeping it real. …

When I was running for political office, I would sometimes embellish. Not my resume so much. I thought most people don’t really care about where I went to college or that I managed to survive three summers working at Dorney Park, not getting fired until season 3. I also thought…

Often, advocacy groups use extreme and false descriptions of their adversaries positions to frighten people. An example of this is the NRA telling people that supporters of gun-control want to “take all of your guns”. That’s not true. There is no mainstream proposal to do anything like that. We may…

I have been in the position of having to answer a difficult question. For example, when my wife Jen asks me if the soy sauce on my shirt means I spent $100 on sushi for lunch, my answer usually sounds something like this: Uh…Well…You see when you say “spent”. That…

I may have my flaws. Then again, I may not. I’m not really saying either way. I’ll let the sainthood people sort that out. But one thing that nobody can deny (although, strangely, nearly everybody does) is that I have a whole bunch of brilliant ideas. My last article explained…

I’m a big believer in the notion that experience matters. A wise person draws on what they’ve seen and done before to help guide them as new situations arise. This is why I, for example, don’t do complicated thoracic surgery. You see, I have no medical training, and have never…

I’m old enough to remember conservative icon William F. Buckley. Apparently, I’m apparently also old enough to use products like “Doan’s Pills” and “Ensure Vitality Booster”, on account of my vitality being unboosted. But that’s the subject of another article. Buckley was the founder and chief editor of National Review…

The results of mid-term elections in America generally track the national mood. Certainly, each race involves individual candidates of greater or lesser degrees of sanity, presentability, committment to personal hygiene, etc. And the way things play out in individual races does matter to some extent. The results of a close…