134th Edition Discrimination Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal for businesses like hotels, restaurants, theaters, and other places open to the public to discriminate against customers based on race, color, religion, or national origin. There
133rd Edition Entitled to what? In a You Tube video, Coach Saban walks to the podium and says, “I want to talk about the importance of nothing. You get up every day… You’re entitled to… nothing.” He then goes on to stress
132nd Edition The American Dream revisited According to a recent Wall Street Journal poll, 70% of our country believes the American Dream is dead. For what it’s worth, 55% of Republicans, as well as 90% of Democrats, held this negative
131st Edition Reflections on the Ryder Cup Wow. A Ryder Cup for the ages. We live in an era when major sporting events receive so much pre-competition hype that in most cases the actual event often seems anti-climactic. Not so with the 45th Ryder
130th Edition School Violence Here we are again trying to make sense of the incomprehensible. Another deadly shooting in a school, this time at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. As Matthew Hennessy succinctly states in his thoughtful essay in the Wall
129th Edition Mind Control Someday I’d like to master total mind control. The idea first came to me while watching one of my all-time favorite movies, a relatively unknown drama starring James Stewart, as Marsh “Carbine” Williams, a bootlegger who is
128th Edition Existential It wasn’t too long ago that when I heard someone use the term “existential” it had no effect on me at all. I’m sure it was because I didn’t know what the word meant. Unfortunately, today I do,
127th Edition If you can keep it I do try to make every weekly blog unique, but I’ve failed miserably on this one. The famous words uttered by Benjamin Franklin, after exiting the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which I highlighted in
Special Edition Everything has changed. Nothing has changed. In all the articles I’ve read following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the comment that resonated most with me was – now everything has changed. Time will tell whether there is any truth to
127th Edition Bored with Bubble Gum For some strange reason, there has been a lull in interesting articles in the Wall Street Journal. You may not have noticed this. Since the Journal has, over the past two years, supplied me with numerous