My country, the United States, has once again had a political assassination, not the first, and although one would wish otherwise, not lik...

    Although I had no intention on writing more about cultural issues, events occurred that changed my mind. Over time, I've heard plent...

  When we hear about mass killings, the next we hear is it has to be mental illness. It must be someone insane. I think that's at least ...

  Thinking what might lead to violent actions, involves a lot of possibilities and differences of opinion. Maybe it takes a combination of ...

  Strictly speaking, violence is not, but its impact on our lives is great whether it touches us directly or through what we read or hear. W...

  view out our bedroom window of Pusch Ridge and clouds typical of our monsoon season down here. There are a LOT of things going on in our w...

One of my  Face Book friends posts mostly pictures of his wife and the marvelous food she prepares in a tiny kitchen, plus pictures of them ...

As soon as the news revealed the horror of what happened in the grade school in Connecticut, the theories began about why it happened. Wh...

I am going to start right off offending certain liberals by daring to use the words bullies and bigots as the title. There is a philosophy o...

Another attack. I really wish I understood what is going on where it comes to this kind of senseless violence. Over and over we are saying t...

My suggestion for a first step on stopping the kind of mass carnage we just saw in Colorado was to ban assault rifles-- at the least reinsta...

Has anyone noticed that since McCain lost the 2008 election, he's been a bitter old man who smiles and uses any possible opportunity to ...