There are certain rules in life that every child must learn – or at least they learn them in my family. For our clan, these rules are passed from one generation to the next and are almost as sacred as the Bible (Note: I said ‘almost’).My mama and daddy taught them to me and my in-laws taught them to...

At the heart of our democratic form of government is the critical need for an impartial judiciary which directly springs from our Separation of Powers. An impartial judiciary is indispensable to the rule of law because, if we lose our case but believe we were granted a fair trial and “had our day in...

The United States Department of Education was in the news last week as President Donald Trump works to fulfil another campaign promise to reduce its size and return public education to states. My opinion, and as studies indicated most American citizens, is this is good news since the federal departm...

I have sat in the U.S. House Chamber as a Congressional staffer several times for presidential addresses, and I never remember feeling more hopeful or...

It never gets easy. Each time one of our “old guards” passes away it seems a piece of all of us goes with them. Last Saturday, family and friends gath...

During the recent winter freeze, my water pipes were suspended in a state of rigidity and frozenness because I forgot to leave the water dripping the ...