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...

I’m part-way through an email promotion for what the fitness trainer alleges to be the most amazing discovery about how to flatten your...

My old stomping grounds (for only two years), The Associated Press, is at it again. Whenever some government pronouncement about...

Be wary of the words you choose. They may mean something entirely different from what you thought they meant. Someone posted on Facebook...

Fellow Floridians, have you read the newspapers today? Tax cuts that you would have received aren’t going to happen. Florida Gov. Rick...

It looks like the bad guys in the Florida Legislature and the governor are going to win the battle over whether to grant health care to...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott and House Speaker Steve Crisafulli are hell-bent on plunging the state into a fiscal and environmental morass....

You Docs, Oz & Roizen It never ceases to amaze me how certain voices in the medical community attain status as experts on all things...

Brian Williams Leading voices in the media are probably more dismayed by former NBC-TV news anchor Brian Williams’ misrepresentations of...

Barry Goldwater Notwithstanding Barry Goldwater’s mantra “Extremism in the cause of liberty is no vice,” it has dire consequences. Look...

It wasn’t a prominently placed story in the Palm Beach Post – an inside page, three-column headline: “Scott, ACLU end fight over state...

Once again, the Republicans in the House of Representatives are showing their true colors – and they ain’t pretty. They long have railed...

The You Docs are making progress, but they’re not there yet. Their last column in my local newspaper had them starting out on a mostly...

Sen. Mitch McConnell Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief...