An antidote to our time of self-absorption and selfishness.
Last week I went to a solemn mass, one in which the story of Jesus being crucified is laid out in agonizing detail, from his best of friends and supporters denying they even knew him to the excruciating physical pain …..
Back in October, I wrote of the country’s need for Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar to become the next President of the United States. Then, in November, columnist Ross Douthat of the New York Times wrote: If I were a shadowy Dem power broker, I would want to boost …..
Throughout these past two years, especially now when his administration has imploded with “D”-listers taking over from either convicted felons or the rare talented, ethical and patriotic souls who left in bitter disgust, so many have tried to call out …..
By now just about everyone in the world knows that Cody Parkey missed a last-second field goal that would have sent his Chicago Bears on in the NFL playoffs to meet the Los Angeles Rams. Parkey’s miss was excruciating to …..
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced earlier this week that he would not run for president. It seems he thinks the process is cruel, which places an exclamation point on stating the obvious. Also from Massachusetts, Senator Elizabeth Warren, whose mistaken and strange obsession with branding her genealogy with a trace …..
In my earliest days as a baseball fan in Chicago, I watched hundreds of games on WGN Television, which was initially the flagship station of both the White Sox and the Cubs. In 1968, the White Sox departed for what …..