These days, I find myself running into run-on sentences with greater frequency. Seems as though people are too impatient, or lazy, or...

MURDER IN PALM BEACH, by me, is about to go FREE! That is, the book will be offered free for one full day beginning at midnight tonight....

Friends and neighbors and lovers of literature (I use the term loosely), sometimes in the world of books there is a free lunch. If that’s...

Mona Charen Paul Krugman and Mona Charen, two syndicated columnists. A recent column by each reminds me of a song: “What a difference a...

Donald Trump I am going to do something I would never have dreamed of doing, to wit, defend Donald Trump and two other Republican...

The You Docs are at it again, touting the wonders of conventional medicine that fly in the face of facts. Real facts, not the kind...

General Mills headquarters near Minneapolis The newspaper headline read: GENERAL MILLS TACKLES GAS EMISSIONS. Hmmm, I thought, the...

If this keeps up, it won’t be too long before billboards, websites and the media will be running ads that read something like, “Come to...

The movement is growing. We speak of the trend toward healthier eating. The latest evidence is General Mills’ decision to remove all...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott Before Republican Rick Scott ran for governor of Florida the first time, in 2010, the voters knew he was a crook:...

Writing isn’t the only way to abuse the English language. The spoken word gets pummeled aplenty these days, often by persons who should...

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly It was quite a matchup in the Republican presidential debate last week, Donald Trump versus Fox News’ Megyn Kelly....

It was enough to turn a liberal into a conservative. I just had an experience with government bureaucracy that made me wonder if the...

Former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley In the opinion of this humble scribe, the most common writing error involves the compound sentence....

A few days ago, the sheriff of Palm Beach County in southeast Florida expressed defiance over criticism arising from a joint media...

Donald Trump At an appearance by Donald Trump this week, all of the veterans present supported him, MSNBC reported, showing one man...

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders This week, two persons on either end of the political spectrum called for a radical change in the nation’s...

New York Stock Exchange United Airlines plane A single day last week told the story of what’s become of life on planet Earth. On...

Republican Catholics are in a quandary. Do they adhere to their political ideology on climate change, or do they follow their spiritual...

When I was in my upper 30s, working with the Palm Beach Post, I came across a piece written by the copy chief that had the...