(Knopf / 978-0-307-26658-3 / July 2008 / 528 pages / $26.95 retail) Although I had heard of Stephen L. Carter long ago, this is the first book of his that I have read. As a Baby Boomer born six years prior to Mr. Carter, I have been living through and following the same historic, modern [...]

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Police believe they have found the body of the 12 year old Vermont girl, Brooke Bennett of Braintree that has been missing since last week. Her uncle, Michael Jacques is the last person known to have seen the girl alive when he dropped her off at a convenience store. State Police James Baker made the [...]

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Nikki tries to get David to see that he is sick and needs help. She begs him to listen to her. She tells him she understands his problems. He tells her he doesn’t want her to understand him or to love him. He tells her to get it through her head, it is over and [...]

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Meg doesn’t want to believe Mike when he tells her that Sofie is pregnant. She says if Sofie was really pregnant Paul would have told her but Mike doesn’t believe that. She tells him she doesn’t understand why he keeps falling for everything that Sofie does. Meanwhile, Barbara tells Paul not to tell Meg the [...]

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When you have a balance scale and you put weight on one side of it, it tilts until you have something on the other side to balance it.  The Fairness Doctrine, that the Left would love to bring back, works on this same principle; opinions being presented should represent all opinions, never mind the ratings.  [...]

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A manhunt set out for an Illinois murder suspect ended with success Tuesday when authorities captured the man outside a bar in Granite City, Illinois, about 10 miles north of St. Louis Mo. Nicholas Sheley,28,was arrested after he had been recognized by a customer inside the bar. The customer, Gary Range, notified a police officer that [...]

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Click here to listen to the audio clips “Hancock, a hero for the rest of us.” Hancock is a super hero for the rest of us. And by us I mean those like me who never totally got into the comic book world or the Marvel Comic heroes who somehow never seemed relatable. There is [...]

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Things That Obama Has Gotten Wrong Recent announcements of positions by Obama strike me as sometimes passable and at others wrong. I focus here on two of the latter: 1) Most civilized countries have now abolished the death penalty for good moral and pragmatic reasons. Too many innocents are executed. Wrong doers are all too [...]

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What Would Jesus Do (in College)? [When I was a student at Union Theological Seminary in NYC in the late 1950s, American Protestantism was at its height both with its orientation towards social justice and brilliant intellectual leadership of theologians such as the Niebuhrs and Paul Tillich. My particular year a half dozen of us [...]

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The National Retail Federation is recognizing a couple of individuals, both from law enforcement and within their own ranks, for their contributions in smashing a $100 million organized retail crime ring. These crime fighters are being honored at the NRF Loss Prevention Conference & EXPO in Orlando, Florida. The two being honored are Detective Ostojic, [...]

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When the whole world (barring a few policy-makers in the US), reeling under $140 a barrel, increasingly pointed finger at the weak dollar as one of the culprits;  the Wall Street Journal came out with an interesting analysis. The dollar not only showed surprising stability, if measured against the broader currencies beyond the trading currency [...]

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