Soon, Gov. Hochul may authorize medical professionals all across New York state to dispense, upon request, a deadly cocktail of poison to patients who are deemed “terminal.” Hopefully, Gov. Hochul will veto this bill. Although New York spends millions of dollars trying to prevent suicide, ...

Being elderly is a tough thing to admit. At least for me. I’m quick to dismiss the reminders-countless wrinkles, nagging aches and pains, doctors appointments every week, forgetting words and names. The latter is particularly galling. Over half the people I run into say “Hi, Ray,” and I ...

We congratulate New York City for their astounding mayoral choice. Forget his sympathies for the perpetrators of 9/11 and his overt anti-Semitism – that’s ancient history. Let us focus on Zohran Mamdani’s real passion: Marxism. Mamdani is a self-proclaimed Marxist, just like the heads ...

What are we to make of Trump’s handling of the SNAP “crisis”—one of his own making? Because he hasn’t offered a logical explanation of why anyone would want their fellow Americans to go hungry when the government is sitting on the resources they need, we have to read the contextual ...

There was a time when both major political parties had a substantial number of liberals and conservatives. But over the course of the lifetime of everyone reading this column today, liberals have shifted to the Democrats, while conservatives have shifted to the Republicans. That has ...

I foolishly planned a yard sale. I even hornswoggled Dear Richard into the idea. I’m an idiot. For the past three or four years, we’ve been donating our worthy goods to worthy charities. Simple. Easy. Sensible. Then one day I found a bunch of little things I don’t use and put them in a ...