As it has for months, Ben Carson’s campaign is raising a lot of money. The Republican presidential candidate raised $23 million in the last quarter of 2015 – ahead of red-hot Ted Cruz and, likely, all other rivals in the Republican field. At the same time, Carson is plunging in the polls. On Nov. 5, […]

We’re having trouble with one of our downstairs servants. We cannot get her to stop saying, “Do you want fries with that?” when we order dinner. Of course, like on “Downton Abbey,” we have hundreds of cooks and scullery maids. They just work at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King and Applebee’s. We also have a staff […]

If we learned anything from 2015, it’s that 2016 will be nothing like what we imagine it will. Suffice it to say that in my look ahead to 2015 last year, I did not predict that Donald Trump would lead in the quest for the Republican presidential nomination. If I had called that one, I’d […]

Overtly looking down on others based on differences of race, religion, gender, ethnicity, sexuality or physical appearance is justifiably condemned by decent people everywhere, and by quite a few otherwise indecent ones as well. The general contempt with which society shuns ISIS, the Ku Klux Klan, and other over-the-top intolerant types illustrates this. But snobbery […]

After candidate entries and candidate withdrawals, debates and debate-related controversies, campaign surges and campaign duds, and tens of millions spent and tens of millions wasted on broadcast advertisements, we finally have reached the actual election year. No one expected Donald J. Trump to retain his high poll ratings. No one expected Gov. Scott Walker of […]

Back in September, I wrote about the state’s growing drug addiction crisis. Now, I’m here to tell you what we’re doing in the Legislature to address it. I and my fellow lawmakers head back to Augusta this week for the first time since summer, to start the next legislative session and to conduct the people’s […]