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Climate change(aka global warming)and warming denial– human-engineered and accelerating at a rapid clip–have been on display in America for at least 4 decades, dating back to when then Vice President Al Gore shared with us “An Inconvenient Truth.”  Scientists were aware of what our industrial and consumer advances–electricity, gas guzzling cars and growing use of … Read More Read More

Many books have been written in the recent period about rural America.  The beginning of this literary push to better understand  the opportunities, problems and malignancies of what one author coined ‘overlooked Americans’ in the hinterlands of non-metropolitan areas was J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” which raised many questions. It dealt with the character of … Read More Read More

His day job involves commenting on what’s happening in real time around the globe but David Ignatius, the highly respected foreign affairs columnist of the Washington Post, also uses his journalistic sources and methods as the basis for compelling fiction. Thus his latest spy novel “Phantom Orbit” offers great insights into the importance of America’s … Read More Read More

One of the fastest growing demographic cohorts in America is men over the age of 60.  Growing with this group, in a majority of instances, is their prostate.  That gland gets much attention primarily as men age and doctors track their PSA number for the potential of being cancerous..  Less discussed, but quite impactful, is … Read More Read More

The pursuit of happiness is a birthright for those of us who are American citizens. It’s right there in the Declaration of Independence, which itself seems rather odd.  We are not guaranteed that state of satisfaction and by recent polling and just a good look around there are lots of unhappy people in this country.  … Read More Read More