“Defund the police” – the rallying cry of the Democratic Party’s progressive left wing in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police nearly three years ago – was arguably the most self-defeating political slogan in modern history. Its impact and potential for inflicting even greater damage reached into the White […]

A few years ago, while driving through South Carolina, we stopped at a Best Western Hotel where the television in the lobby was broadcasting CNN. I went up to the main desk and thanked the receptionist for not broadcasting Fox News, the common choice in those parts. I have a good friend in the south […]

I am definitely a product of the great American melting pot, but on both sides of the family, a Scots-Irish ancestry is prominent. (Some distant cousin with too much time on his hands traced my mother’s maternal grandmother’s line back to 1557 in Ireland. But come to think of it, if the distant cousin also […]