The Republican presidential primary process has successfully plumbed new depths of disgust in American politics. The parade of Neanderthals that keeps emerging from the back of the party’s cave to ...

It’s pretty clear by now that expressions of empathy and supplications for divine intervention are no more effective in ending the continual carnage of mass shootings in America than is wishing on a ...

Not being a man of faith affiliated with any church or religion may rule out the notion of my eternity, but it does afford a perspective on the here and now that is unclouded by ecclesiastical ...

Those of us who have been subject to the military draft will remember getting that dreaded letter from the local draft board: “Greetings, you have been selected …” Many of us feel a similar dread ...

In his Nov. 29 commentary, Alcorn asserts that anyone who voted for President Donald Trump is “delusional or dissolute” — as in immoral, depraved, evil-minded. His rage has blinded his ability to see; ...

There are those who argue that the underlying cause of the angst and anger that fuels America’s incendiary political tribalism is the tenuous finances and fading prospects of a large number of ...

The obsession with human sexuality and the concomitant consternation it arouses present curious contradictions. Sexuality is as natural to the human species as is hunger and thirst, and judging from ...

As America maintains, with persistent folly, its position as the world leader in COVID-19 infections and deaths, governors, both Democrats and Republicans, are now pleading for a coordinated national ...

Last month, another high-ranking Santa Barbara City College staffer was placed on administrative leave for saying something that was considered offensive by some segment of the school’s population.

For nearly my entire adult life I have been politically independent and ideologically agnostic. Anyone who has read my columns over the past 20 years should know that I have equal disdain for both ...

Mark Twain once observed, “The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.” That observation is as true today as it was when he made it more than a ...