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This Sunday we will all being celebrating Father’s Day. It’s a day with a long history that started in Catholic dominated Europe in the Middle Ages. It was originally celebrated on March 19th, St. Joseph’s Day in honor of the guy we have all been trying to live up to for two thousand years. It

The crowd was middle age. There was a lot of gray hair and bald spots. About 24 hundred of us were gathered at the Borgata Event Center to hear and see the man who will forever remind us of our youth and the turbulent times when we came of age. As with many iconic figures,

It was 13 years ago, but it was trip I will never forget. We went to Paris for our 3oth wedding anniversary. We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go to Normandy to see the beaches of D-Day and the American Cemetery and Memorial. My father-in-law had landed on Utah beach in August of 1944

One of the most important and damaging stories in the last 25 years has been the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests that went on for decades and was covered up by superiors. A coverup that allowed the crimes to continue for years. Thousands of  vulnerable children from alter boys to high school girls

This time it was a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee in the middle of the night. A man who should never have had a gun pulled up to the restaurant, got out of his car, and opened fire with everyone’s favorite assault weapon, the AR-15. Two people were shot and killed in the parking lot. Two more

Elections are like job interviews. As voters, that’s how we should be evaluating House and Senate candidates for political office. They want the job representing us on some serious issues like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s an attractive opportunity. Starting salary, $174,000, free airport parking, free gym, up to 239 days off

The Beatles famously sang, “Here comes the sun, It’s alright, Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter,…it feels like years since it’s been here.”  January and February are the darkest, coldest months of the year. But, we always hold out hope for March. The clocks get turned ahead the first weekend of the

It’s overwhelming inside the sports betting parlor of the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on the the first weekend of the NCAA college basketball national championship tournament. Eighteen giant TV screens are on a two story curved wall. Across from that wall is the wall with all the teams playing, and the various

The parking lot of the middle school was packed. I found a spot around in the back after moving some pallets to clear a space. It was the meeting of the Bucks County Democratic Committee which was to vote on whether or not to endorse a candidate for congress from the 1st district and other

It’s been among the top news stories for weeks. Thousands of people are sick, and flooding emergency rooms. Children are dying from severe cases. It’s one of the worst seasons in the last ten years. Doctors are repeatedly advising people to get the flu vaccine, even though the latest CDC study says the vaccine is