An ancillary benefit from doing book signings is the opportunity to meet the most interesting people. I’ve been signing my novel Murder...

Pundits like Mona Charen are not writing on behalf of their readers or their country. Their dissertations are guided by partisan...

A word in a Palm Beach Post editorial last week sent me to the dictionary. The word was staunching, its “No no no!” I exclaimed,...

What a great week of music it was in different parts of the Palm Beaches. The 65-piece Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches presented an...

Star Parker Star Parker calls to mind the reformed smoker who has no tolerance for smokers. She was a wayward youth until she found...

David Brooks David Brooks, ever the philosopher, had a piece the other day in the New York Times that paints a gloomy picture of a strong...

Our new president has been promising for a long time to “make America great again.” Two things happened today that inspired me with...

Robert Kennedy Jr. Perhaps the only positive thing President Donald Trump has done in his short time in office is to create a committee...

Bashar al-Assad What to make of President Trump’s decision last week to launch a missile strike against Syria? That question has garnered...

Chuck Schumer Okay, the Republican health-care bill is dead. The big thing now is the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court....

Be wary of Health Sciences Institute, an outfit that promotes dietary supplements and dispenses alternative medical advice. I have no...

The Grammar Grouch is more dyspeptic than usual today. The thing which has him in high dudgeon is that totally, woefully, abysmally wrong...

President Donald Trump Last week, I heard on National Public Radio a discussion about the strife among friends and family engendered by...

Have I become a more astute writer in the past decade or so, or has the writing community become more sloppy? Did I in decades past make...

Marco Rubio I became a member of Palm Beach Indivisibles this week, and at least some of us wrote a letter to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a...

Someone suggested sending a Valentine card to the Wisconsin home of Rep. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the Republican-controlled House, calling...

This week is a big one for important anniversaries in the Palm Beaches and on a national level, two of them involving assassinations. The...

About a week ago, a letter-to-the-editor in the Palm Beach Post made me laugh out loud. “GOP’s shell game with Obamacare” was the title...

This is a test of my @#$%^&* WordPress website connection. What a pain. Hasn’t been working right. Let’s see if this connects.

The subject for discussion today may not seem important, but to The Grammar Grouch, it certainly is annoying. Most important, it’s a...