I took advantage of one of those beautiful late fall days to go to the apple orchard. The drive was beautiful. So many trees had colorful leaves. When I arrived, the ladies who were working recognized me. They told me they read my column. We talked about my visits. In the years since I ...

The Hamas murderous, barbaric, ISIS-like attack on Israel from Gaza is horrific and deserves all the media attention it has gotten. However, Hamas, a terrorist organization, not a nation state, based in Gaza (population 2,000,000), does not pose the same kind of threat to world peace as ...

In 1941 the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini, a supporter of Hitler, invited him to come to Palestine and “eliminate all the Jews.” In a letter he wrote in 1921 to Winston Churchill, who was Colonial Secretary at the time, Al Husseini asked that restrictions be put on Jewish ...

There seems to be a growing chorus that a college education isn’t worth it anymore…that the quicker a young person can find a good job the better. I must tell you up front that I am not in that camp. I come from the “old school,” and believe that there is a lot more to college than ...

Let’s pick up where we left off last week. The U.S. House of Representatives has an odd rule. It in effect allows a small minority of the majority to join forces with a large majority of the minority to vacate the chair in whatever circumstances the small minority of the majority chooses, ...

Question: I turned 65 earlier in 2023 and signed up for a Medicare Advantage Plan I am happy with, do I have to change insurance again? Why am I getting so much mail about insurance now? Answer: Welcome to your first Medicare Annual Open Enrollment Period (OEP). It sounds like you signed up ...