"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

The debate has reached fever pitch and the rhetoric of vitriolic proportion over what to do about injury, murder and massacre caused by firearms in our country -- from NY's Governor Cuomo telling his state's residents the...

"It'll be a sad day for this country if children can safely attend their classes only under the protection of armed guards."

If it is up to the NRA spokesman last Friday speaking for his group, this is precisely what needs to be done, arming the "good guys" to do...

Dear Mr. Vice President:

You and others have now been tasked by the president to study the issue of violence caused by guns in this country, its causes and its solutions, all within a month's time per presidential directive. In making this appointment, President Obama recognized that there...

There but for the grace of God, go I.

Recall this coinage? Recall it again as you think about the innocent children slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., not by a single person, but by the epidemic called, guns in America. It does not matter that a...

Quite recently, a Chicago federal jury decided a case against the City of Chicago in the beating of a female bartender by an off-duty Chicago police officer. As reported in the Chicago papers, the woman was awarded $850,000.00 from the city besides it having to pay fees to...

Ever hear the expression "The more things change, the more they stay the same"?

As part of the many hours of voting that culminated in President Obama's stunning and glorious victory in this week's presidential race, I volunteered to be part of his Voter Protection Team as a poll...

This blog post was first written on October 29, at the start of one of this country's worst natural disasters -- Hurricane Sandy and its horrific destruction and aftermath. It has been subsequently updated.

The president is off the campaign trail and back where we expect him to be,...

In an article written by New York Times' Robert Pear, the nationwide, across state-lines health plans that Romney and his backers want will already be part of the president's Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"). While these plans will not constitute a purely government-run insurance program, they will be a...

Most of my blog posts since I started writing for HuffPost four years ago -- one shy of 100 with this one -- have concerned politics and health care/health care legislation, notably the Affordable Care Act. This one diverges due in recent days to what I see as racism and...

There is a Republican candidate running for the United States Senate in Indiana by the name of Richard Mourdock. By now we should have all heard his remarks (Oct,. 24) about a woman who is raped, resulting in a pregnancy. The guy said that it is God's intention that this...

During the third debate, Romney stated, "Come on our website, you'll look how we get to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years. We do it by getting -- by reducing spending in a whole series of programs. By the way, number one -- get rid of...

During the presidential debate at Hofstra University on Long Island last night, Mitt Romney said the following: "'Obamacare' has been an extraordinary deterrent to enterprises of all kinds hiring people." Only a person steeped in greed and avarice would consider letting Americans' ability to access and to afford health care...

Before I go any further, I want to let those who read this piece know that just because it is my 95th such post for HuffPost, I am not one of the liberal persuasion who consistently votes for Democrats or supports left-wing politics (HuffPost and its politics apparently are viewed...

Enough has already been written about Mitt Romney and how shading the truth or burying it is inappropriate conduct, disregarding the fact-checkers whose work shows that he has not been truthful with the American public (it is called "lying," as I recall) and recanting clear statements he has made on...

Mr. President, your presentation during the first debate with Governor Romney was awful. You were up against a bully -- look how much disrespect he gave the moderator, Jim Lehrer (Mr. Lehrer, it is time to retire from being a moderator since you let the bully run all over you)...

I gave the following presentation outside of Tiberias, Israel (NE Sea of Galilee) on September 4, 2012 as part of a United Nations' UNESCO Conference on Bioethics -- days after Paul Ryan said that rights are from nature and God, but not government, and before it was reported that Mitt...

The 129-year-old Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago, established an athletic hall of fame in the 1994-95 school year to honor men and women, teams and now coaches, who established themselves as outstanding in their athletic or coaching endeavors either while in...

Famous NY Yankee Hall-of Fame catcher, Yogi Berra, famously once said, "It Ain't Over 'Till It's Over". And, boy was he right when it came to the United States Supreme Court deciding the constitutionality of Obamacare (ACA). As reported elsewhere on the pages of HuffPost, CBS chief legal...

Mark June 28, 2012 -- the day that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- as the first day that health care starts to become a right, and not a privilege, for all Americans. Mark June 28, 2012 as the day that what Obama promised on the...

The nationally known and highly acclaimed Chicago-based personal injury lawyer, Philip Corboy, has now passed away. His life and times were reported in a front page story of the Chicago Tribune on June 13, 2012 (When disaster struck, victims turned to him). While there were many who opposed...