I lived in Southern California from 1978 to 1991,  For seven years, I lived in beautiful Malibu which has virtually been destroyed by the Woolsley fire.  One of my very best friends lost his house in one of the canyons.  He had lived there 42 years.  Over the years, I

More than 30 million Americans have cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, eclipsing the 2014 early totals nationally and suggesting a high overall turnout for contests that could define the final two years of President Donald Trump’s term. At least 28 states have surpassed their 2014 early votes. And

I grew up in the 1950s and early 1960’s.  I can remember running through the neighborhood when we were twelve or thirteen doing silly kid stuff like knocking on doors and running (ding,dong ditch) or throwing crabapples at cars. A couple of times the police caught us – one time

When Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San Francisco 49’s sat down during the National Anthem before the team’s first preseason game going into the 2016 season, he probably didn’t realize the impact he would have.  What moved him to protest was the deaths of African Americans at the hands of police

Andrew Craig Brunson is a pastor from North Carolina who, for the past twenty-three years, has lived in Turkey with his wife and three children.  He was the pastor of the Izmir Diriliş (the Resurrection) Church, a small evangelical Presbyterian congregation in the city of Izmir with about twenty-five members.

published Jul 7, 2018 9:00:19 AM, by Francis Wilkinson (Bloomberg Opinion) — Public opinion on abortion has been remarkably stable in recent decades, with significant but never overwhelming majorities supporting legal yet restricted abortion rights. Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that guarantees the right to abortion, with caveats

After much detailed research for a book I am writing entitled Ready to Pop : The Rise of Mass Murder in America, I have come to the conclusion that there are five factors in America today which have combined into a perfect storm to fuel mass murder including school shootings.

Somehow back in the early days of media and politics an unspoken agreement was made. I imagine this was pretty early on – perhaps when Gronk, the caveman, decided he wanted to be the leader of his cave dweller tribe and thought it best if Donk, who was drawing pictures

published Nov 6th 2016, 1:24 am, by Alan Bjerga and Kevin Cirilli (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump was rushed from a stage in Nevada by Secret Service agents after flying from swing state to swing state while Hillary Clinton used her fund-raising edge on get-out-the-vote efforts and TV advertising in a

published Oct 13th 2016, 1:46 pm, by Deena Shanker (Bloomberg) — There’s good news for Americans who find themselves waking up in a cold sweat at 3 a.m. to check the latest polls: You are not alone. More than half of you—on both sides of the aisle—say the 2016 election