Since my earliest days, I can remember people complaining about the slowness of government. For example, my Dad used to refer to a federal agency, the Works Progress Administration (WPA,) as “We Poke Along.” He never thought that they got much done, and, when they did, it took a long ...

No one should doubt the tremendous dedication and ability of many people who work in facilities that care for people who, for whatever reason, need some help with the tasks of daily living. Nothing here questions such dedication or such ability. There was a time, however, when such facilities ...

I have no idea what got me thinking about my rights, but all of sudden I was looking up the Bill of Rights. Of course, that is the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the U. S. Yes, I do know. I heard a question on a quiz show and the contestants did not know the answer. The first ...

“She made the problem visible,” said a commentator on TV regarding Dr. Claudine Gay before she resigned from Harvard as President. She’s no longer president, but the problem lingers. The lingering problem stems from uprooting the original intent of the institution expressed in its early ...

The other night on TV, I watched a video of hundreds of people trudging through mud near the border between Colombia and Panama in a place called the Darien Gap—all trying to get to America. All of Donald Trump’s talk and the miles of border wall that he built, and all of the efforts of ...

Once while a legislative body was considering raising the minimum wage, a member of that body visited a leader of a local employer. Never mind which legislative body. Never mind which member. Never mind which leader. Never mind which local employer. Their identities aren’t pertinent ...