Published January 26, 2018 Just when you think the Washington political circus could not get more dysfunctional, we get a weekend...

January 2018 Welcome to 2018. Like many, I have made some new year’s resolutions. I thought I would share one with you. I resolve not to...

December 2017 It can be cold in Judea in wintertime. A young girl sits on a donkey, heavy with child. Weary from travel and troubled to...

December 2017 Readers of my Greenwich Sentinel columns will know that I enjoy writing about local individuals and interesting...

November 2017 This country has too many lawyers. Now, as a former attorney myself, I’m certainly not suggesting we follow Shakespeare’s...

November 2017 “What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.” Who knew that Hal...

October 2017 Just when you thought (hoped?) things might be settling down in Washington, the Wild West has come to the West Wing. ...

October 2017 In September of 1814, 35 year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key found himself an involuntary guest (prisoner) of...

September 2017 I’ve written before about the absurdities of political correctness, and thought I’d seen it all. But the following really...

“Ecce Homo.” The Bible tells us that these were the words the Roman governor Pontius Pilate used when presenting Jesus of Nazareth --...

You may be familiar with a wonderful old quote, traditionally attributed to the German “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck but most...

Some may recall that during the era of McCarthyism, the House of Representatives had its own investigative body, known as the House...

July 2017 I don’t play golf regularly or well, but I know what a Mulligan is. Wikipedia defines it as “a second chance … to perform a...

July 2017 Remember the Cold War? I certainly do. It was a period of great geopolitical tension and proxy conflicts between the rival...

May 2017 I am writing this in a small hotel room in a similarly small French town in the heights of the Pyrenees Mountains at the border...

March 2017 I intend to see “Hacksaw Ridge,” the Oscar-winning movie that tells the true story of Army medic Desmond T. Doss, who won the...

February 2017 The following is meant as an observation on politics, not a political observation. A man ran for the highest office in the...

January 2017 No, this is not an article about the 1975 song of that name by Shirley & Company (though Millenials curious to see how badly...

January 2017 Pontius Pilate once famously asked, “What is truth?” (John 18:38). Today we might ask, “Where is truth?” We live in an...

December 2016 Very good friends treated us to “Hamilton: An American Musical” recently (yes, it really is as good as they say, even...