It’s a somewhat esoteric question to ask what was worse, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 or the four commercial jet
Where’s Matt? Dancing with Steichen and Mead
A jolt of joy. Don’t you think we all need a bit of it right now? I know I’ve been feeling the need lately
Pray anywhere? Read the fine print first
Recent polling shows that 82 percent of Missouri voters favor the so-called “Pray Anywhere” constitutional amendment on the August 7 [2012] ballot. Well, sure
Wealth doesn’t trickle down when it’s parked in off shore tax havens
A new study by the Tax Justice Network “The Price of Offshore Revisited” shines a light on the size of the global offshore economy—the amount of
This is beyond politics?
How many times have you heard a so-called statesman or stateswoman say, “this is beyond politics.” The implication is that the issue is of
Disney, Obama and the American dream
Visiting Disney World with my family last week, I took in the show at the Hall of Presidents in the Magic Kingdom’s Liberty Square.
How refreshing: David Frum goes from conservative to semi-liberal
On his HBO show, Bill Maher usually arranges for one of his three guests to be a conservative. In one sense, he wants to
Rollin’ on the [federally flood-controlled] river
If you want to travel by boat, or ship grain by barge on the Mississippi River, you’re going to encounter locks and dams. On
Picasso’s Guernica and the horrors of war: 75 years later
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the
George Holliday and Rodney King
I don’t know if George Holliday of Los Angeles is related to Cardinal slugger Matt Holliday, but each in his own way brings fame