Tariffs are on, off, on, partially off, partially on, off, on...  Tariff exceptions granted to companies that Trump likes. Tariffs will...

I watch as faculty members and staff members at universities in Florida worry about what they say out loud in class or in the hallways...

We have an unelected co-president who has created an illegal shadow government which is illegally taking over the federal bureaucracy by...

As the stock market crashed yesterday and fearing an even greater crash of his own making and fearing increased prices at the grocery...

Shan and I were blessed to have heard President Jimmy Carter teach Sunday School in Plains twice. One of the times he discussed my...

banned in Collier County... During the 2023-24 academic year, 4231 unique titles (books) or more than 10,000 total were banned in public...

The unemployment rate as of September 2024 is 4.1% (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis).  This is lower than the natural unemployment rate...

A week or so ago I completed my mail-in ballot and voted for Kamala Harris for President.  When I vote for a candidate, I have three...

About 15 years ago my wife gave me an autographed copy of Character is Destiny  written by Senator John McCain.  It is one of my favorite...

I taught university students in Texas and Indiana for 39 years with most of them representing Generation X (born 1965-80) and Millennials...

What does the term “open borders” mean?  I know that it became popular during the Obama years by some Republicans who wanted to and did...

I have been taught my entire life by my parents, community leaders, teachers, professors, and lawyers that no one is above the law in our...

In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote “The great masses of the people…will more easily fall victim to a great lie than to a small one.”  By the end...

I am reading William Manchester’s masterful three volume biography of Winston Churchill.  In addition to being one of the most important...

Foreign aid has become a serious election and national security issue in the last few months.   The President has recently asked for...

It is rare that we get dreary days in Tallahassee but today is one of those.  So, I just started writing.  About 12 years ago I was...

I lived in Indiana for 31 years, almost all of my professional academic career, and I had many wonderful colleagues across the state...

The past year or so as we drive up to the Louisville area to visit our kids and our grandson Shan and I have noticed the huge twin...

As an avid book reader my entire life, thanks to the influence of my mother, and as an academic, I am greatly alarmed at the dramatic...

Republican-led states are passing laws which severely limit the discussion of race, gender, and sexuality in classrooms from K-12 through...