The first victims of the Nazi efforts to kill everyone who disagreed with them were people with disabilities. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, more than 250,000 people who had physical or mental disabilities were killed. This included 5,000 children. The Nazi government ...

Staring into the faces of my cousins at a funeral for one of them made me realize how much I love these people whom I never chose to be related to, but can’t imagine my childhood without them in it. My deceased first cousin was actually a twin. His family, like mine, had lots of kids. ...

A philosophical festering has taken root in the minds of the left that their opponents are evil, and words are violence. A permission structure formed on MSNBC and other progressive media outlets that the right must be stopped to save democracy. An exculpatory structure formed on CNN and other ...

We Americans, it seems, continue to live in two separate countries. Consider two items in the news this week and the inconsistent responses they evoked. One was the conviction in Florida of Ryan Routh, the second man who attempted to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump in mid-September ...

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ... " -- First Amendment to the U.S. ...

I find trying to understand human psyche fascinating. While it's not something I've delved into from an academic or scientific standpoint, there are a lot of the basics that I find provide insight into how and why we tend to do what we do. I've been thinking and talking about some of those ...