With Inauguration Day a few days away, let’s pick up where we left off 13 weeks ago, just before Election Day. The mother in this columnist’s German exchange family, having started school in 1933 and graduated in 1945—think about those years in German history—learned from a young age, ...

It’s neither a hot war or a cold war yet, but China is at battle with us whether we know it or not. Its goal is to replace the United States by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s rise as the predominant power in the world and destroy free market capitalism. The ...

This morning, Dear Richard said, “I’m making scrambled eggs. Want some?” He does this about three or four days a week. I accept his offer occasionally. Most winters, oatmeal is my game. I like the quick variety – five minutes – from measuring the oats and water to the brown sugar ...

I am a retired business rep for International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 97. This union represents the employees of National Grid, as well as those who lost their jobs at the Huntley and Dunkirk Power Plants. Another IBEW Local represented the employees who lost their jobs at ...

Now that a Fox News celebrity has been nominated to be Secretary of Defense and a former top executive at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) tapped to run the Education Department, it would seem likely that there could be a job opening for Hulk Hogan in the federal government. As the old ...

It would be folly to allow politicians to diagnose and treat our medical conditions, just as it is folly to permit them to diagnose and treat our energy woes. Politicians are often responding to pressure from various stakeholders like self-serving industry groups and environmental ...