Last Thursday July 19, Republicans in the Senate used a filibuster to stop a jobs bill that would have given companies tax incentives to ret...

Joan and I just returned yesterday from a wonderful 10-day vacation to Glacier National Park in Montana.  The "Crown of the Contine...

Today's release of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling validating President Obama's signature health care overhaul marks a groundbreaking...

At the end of the week we'll be leaving on a trip I've been looking forward to for many years.  My mother often spoke glowingly of a...

There is good news on the energy and environmental fronts: the use of coal is declining, and fast.  Jonathan Fahey of the Associated Press r...

I spent last week in Kansas City grading advanced placement high school exams in European History.  Almost 110,000 of the better students ac...

Yesterday my wife and I got back from a whirlwind trip over Tioga Pass in Yosemite National Park.  We left Sunday at noon from Visalia, taki...