Aesop Fables are great teaching tools.  I like the one where a father goes to his kids, hands them each a stick and says, “break the stick”.  They shrug their shoulders and break the sticks.  No big deal.  Next day, he hands each of them another stick and says put...

I am a proud Pennsylvanian.  The current Phillies run is great – the team is now being compared to the 1929 Philadelphia A’s as the best ever (an analysis done by Sports Illustrated a couple of years ago had the audacity to say Connie Mack’s A’s were better than Ruth’s...

I was listening to the Michael Smerconish Program where the main guest was Dr. Richard Dawkins.  He was hawking his new book.

Dr. Dawkins is one of what I call the Bishops of Atheism, people spreading the gospel of non-god.  To him anyone who believes in God is delusional. 

On the national level the blood sport game of politics is played on a grand scale.  Locally, the rough and tumble can leave real scars and scarring. 

I doubt that some of the talking heads on TV have families that would associate with each other at the Home and...

I know this may become a piece of Saturday morning pizza.  Sometimes overlooked or thrown out.  If you have it for breakfast you get a different taste than Friday night.  I waited to write this so I could look on the blogs and absorb the media to get a perspective...

The aging Senator leaned in on the dais, his right hand starting to show what arthritis can do.  His digits flare downward slightly.  It made me think about how uncomfortable it must be for a guy in his 80’s to be glad handing a crowd of a couple of hundred...

New Jersey sits about 20 miles from here.  It is a peninsula bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Delaware River and Delaware Bay.  It is free to go into the state and people gladly pay to leave (all the toll booths are set up on the Jersey side).  Some people think...

This is a follow-up to a post I wrote last week on civility, Hey, I Got Your Civility Right Here, Champ!, where I outline that we are uncivil because it pays.

Over the last couple of months a really smart guy, James Rucker, put a web site together to...

I try to participate in talk radio when I can.  Tuesday morning I tried to call into the Smerconish Show when he brought up the topic of Civility.  Why is the discourse so coarse?  A number of people rang in with things like: the media did it, declining family values, technology...

Joe "the Screamer" Wilson really stepped in it.  He needs to do some sort of pennance for what he did to the president.  And, quite honestly, the Shimkus guy should get the same treatment.

Censure isn't the right call here.  It simply becomes the Red Badge of Courage for more of...

I saw the speech last night and some of the reactions to the proceeding then slept on it.

Did I see all the things I wanted to see?  No, but I have enough to go on.

I saw the President box out in the low post. 

For those who...

In the middle of August, I got one shot off to the president saying that I am getting ticked off that he is negotiating with people who want to do him in.  If President Obama’s knees buckle on Wednesday night, it will have more dire ramifications than just this health...

After attending the Sestak-Toomey debate in Allentown this week I struck up a conversation with one of the people who questioned the two senate candidates during the forum.  This person was a 60-something doctor of oncology.  His perspective was how much we need tort reform because malpractice insurance rates are...

St. Matthew and his friends are on our side. I like our odds.

You a Christian?  I am a Christian.  I am a recovering Catholic.  Have you checked out the Gospels lately?  Many conservatives know how to meld religion and politics very well.  I like it when one of our guys...

Domestic protection is one area where the marketplace can work really well.  It used to be called the mafia.  (A protected neighborhood can be one of the safest places on the planet.)  When the providers of these goods and services started competing, watch out.  You could make a bunch of...

Why should business be mandated to provide social programs?

Quick answer is they shouldn’t.

But that is what we got here.  It is Unsocialablized Medicine.

Business is in the business to make money – not be the architect or deliverer of social programs (unless they are using benefits to entice...

Ted Kennedy was all that.

There are rightly going to be tributes to this man and his legacy.

He should lie in state as the symbol of an era that lies in state.  I was too young to remember JFK’s assassination.  But the books at St. Robert’s in Chester trumpeted...

Yep, I am saying that (and I haven't even seen what you look like...). We grouse about Congress people prostituting themselves all the time. If we believe in health care, we may have to do it.

This is my second post for HuffPo. I am using comments garnered from the...

I am having a blast.

Huffington post wrote a story on me, and yeah, it's cool. All the comments were cool -- good and bad.

I spent Saturday night returning high fives to those giving me atta-boys in the comments section. I enjoyed defining and defending myself to those who...