It didn’t take long into the night to find that the midterm elections had became a rout, a wipeout by Democrats. In short order, the recriminations began within a Republican Congress that had spent the past two years kowtowing to Donald Trump, defending the indefensible, excusing the inexcusable, turning a blind eye to a level of Boss Tweed-style corruption unprecedented...

The Milwaukee Brewers marched through baseball’s best team—the Los Angeles Dodgers—to capture their FIRST World Championship. They defeated the Dodgers, champions in 2024 and 2025 in FOUR straight games. That alone is an extraordinary achievement. But watching the series, I saw something else: Respect. Determination. Hard work. Patience. And most impressive to me—the ability to shake off failure and move...

“We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom.” On January 20, 1961, I was in seventh grade, watching John F. Kennedy deliver his inaugural address. I could not have known then that I was witnessing a moment in history, with words that would inspire generations to come. As Thurston Clarke recounts in his book Ask...

“I would like to say again that the United States is very much interested in reducing tensions and halting the arms race.” —President John F. Kennedy, October 27, 1962 “I express my satisfaction and thank you for the sense of proportion you have displayed and for realization of the responsibility which now devolves on you for the preservation of the...

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was scheduled to address Texas Democratic leaders and supporters at a fundraising dinner in Austin honoring him and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. He never made it. Earlier that day, an assassin’s bullets took his life in Dallas. But they did not silence the words he had prepared for that evening. More...

Remember how everyone was talking about the dangers of AI just a month ago? “Is There Really a 10% Chance AI Could Kill Us All.”—The L.A, Times For weeks, news reports have warned that artificial intelligence could someday escape human control, threatening everything from national security to humanity’s very existence in the future. The future is here but it’s not...

On March 4, 1865, a tall, tired man stood before a crowd gathered at the United States Capitol to deliver what would become one of the greatest speeches in American history. Abraham Lincoln was beginning his second term as president. The Civil War, which had torn the nation apart for nearly four years and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives...

I’ve spent much of my life thinking and writing about ethics. About honesty. About responsibility. About integrity—not simply when doing the right thing is easy, but when it demands courage, carries consequences, and comes at a personal cost. We are 18 days away from a national election. Lately, I’ve found myself wondering whether we’ve reached a point in American life...

It’s difficult to write about honesty, responsibility, and integrity when our minds are consumed daily by a president who demonstrates zero respect for those values and treats public office as a vehicle for his own power, profit, and self-glorification. As of October 12, 2026, President Trump and his administration, including the Justice Department headed by Attorney General Todd Blanche, have...

Republican John Williams, a chicken farmer and feed dealer from southern Delaware, had never gone to college.  He spoke so quietly on the Senate floor that the news media dubbed him “Whispering Willie.” But when he spoke, people listened as he exposed the biggest corruption scandals of the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s – sending hundreds of government officials to...