The View from This Seat

Only you older readers have clear memories of 1968, but I remember it well. That was nearly 60 years ago, and it was a pivotal year in my ca...

“Is Trump a Lunatic?” is the title of my previous blog post . Bruce Maples, founder of the “Forward Kentucky” website, recently referred to ...

“Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives...

Everything is more complex than we generally think. What we experience daily is thought to be unquestionably “real.” Yet the deeper we look,...

  Lyndon Baines Johnson was never one of my favorite presidents as a man—he seemed quite unrefined, especially compared with the suave John ...

According to a recent online post by CNBC, “Affordability is a buzzword right now.” That certainly seems to be the case, but what does affor...

Most of you remember Formosa being the name often used for the island that lies between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. That name...