"Be bold - shape the future" is the tagline of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. The sentiment - Fortune favors the bold -...

A statement is said to be self-evident if it is generally accepted and requires no proof. Most Americans associate "self-evident truth"...

"I want to live in a normal country" may well be the most poignant, plaintive and desperate quote of Alexei Navalny whose death in a...

...make stupid mistakes? Two recent events prompted today's post. Over the new year we learned that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had...

That expression transports Americans of a certain age back to 1969-70 and Vice-President Spiro Agnew's diatribes against Democrats and...

The president who succeeded Lincoln was Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson.

It is almost 4 years since I started writing this blog with the laudable goal of promoting moderation over extremism. Most of the...

As we enter 2024 we can expect more traffic in the middle of the road. This will be mainly due to Republican candidates for everything...

In the non-medical sense, dysfunction can be defined as unhealthy or problematic behaviors and attitudes within a social system. I...

I have long felt that the practice of characterizing political positions as "left" or "right" with the qualifiers "center", "moderate"...

Indian Prime Minister Modi's visit to the US has drawn the attention of Americans to India - the world's largest democracy. At first...

Time flies, they say, and I did not realize that it is almost two months since my last post. The long silence is certainly not due to a...

I don't know if the number of mass shootings in the US, defined as those with three or more fatalities, exceeds the number of days in the...

...is defined as a dilemma from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions and accurately describes...

As we start the new year, we can wish each other the best but should probably be prepared for something less. If the goings-on in the...

It has been said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. While the results of the mid-term elections could be considered a mixed...

As the dust settles after Election '22 I would like to share my experience with the election process. I have lived in the US for most of...

With Election '22 a week away one thing is clear - the premise underlying my decision to start this blog more than two years ago has been...

The passing of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev took me back three decades to the - take your pick - turn of the century/ end of the USSR/...

The term, cost of living, normally represents the cost of necessities like food, shelter, clothing etc. While health care also is...