“The sacred obligation to defend this peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every American president…Except one.” -Rep. Liz Cheney The German film maker Werner Herzog, maker of ’70s and ‘80s epic films such as Fitzcarraldo and Aquirre, The Wrath of God, has ventured outside his preferred ouevre to…

In 1967, Arnold Palmer took home $20,000 as the winner of the American Golf Classic, making him the first golfer to go over $1 million in earnings…. for a career. Of course Palmer would go on to make many more millions as television money and the expansion of the PGA…

Another day, another mass shooting. And unlike many of these events that typically occur in schools, the slaying of 10 innocent people in a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo on Sunday had a clear cause that puts it in the category of those inspired by racial animus derived from “Replacement Theory,”…

And the only sound that’s left After the ambulances go Is Cinderella sweeping up On Desolation Row -Bob Dylan Although Chief Justice Roberts, while decrying the “breach of trust” in leaking the draft opinion of Justice Samuel Alito that undoubtedly will mean the death knell for Roe v. Wade, described…

The presidential candidate rails against immigrants, trashes NATO and the EU and cozies up to Vladimir Putin. No, it is not Donald Trump, but Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far right National Rally, who is perilously close to becoming the president of France in this Sunday’s runoff against…

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” -William Faulkner There are two types of freedom: freedom from and freedom to. The first is based on a notion that there are certain things the government cannot force us to do. The second is the…

“Go forth and set the world on fire.” ― St. Ignatius Loyola With the never-ending pandemic, the rise in inflation and the war in Ukraine, it is increasingly difficult to find a feel-good story now days. But the seemingly inexorable success of the St. Peter’s University mens basketball team in…

Many Americans can’t wait to retire so they can play more golf, kibbutz with their friends at the pool or sharpen their bridge skills. Others worry that they have not saved enough, failed to develop outside interests or realize that retirement will force them to spend more time with their…

In 2004, our family traveled to Portugal to attend several games of that year’s European Soccer Championships. While renting a villa in the Algarve, we were surrounded by various embodiments of the event: from exuberant Dutch fans in the streets, unmistakable in their luminous orange apparel, to the German training…