The underlying story is as follows: Corona del Mar High School in Orange County is reputed as one of California’s top schools. It is part of Newport-Mesa School District with about 2,200 students, of whom 99 percent go on to college. Among other perks, the atmosphere allows an enjoyment of private...

It’s happened again. Another celebrity who did himself in with a drug overdose, and the media are fevered to saturate us with details. This time it’s actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. It would seem he was in the “he had everything going for him” class. Not anymore. With each new repeat of the same...

Prudently setting priorities and adhering to them are essential to living a contented life. The acts provide for establishing parameters, setting goals and laying the pathways to tread. Absence of all of that breeds chaos; chaos wreaks havoc, and havoc erases focus. Responsible people work at positively...

It was a gruesome murder. Murders commonly are. It involved the untimely death of a defenseless young woman in 1989. Now there will be a lawsuit. Not litigation on behalf of the victim herself or her suffering family, but one on behalf of the convicted rapist and murderer Dennis McGuire. This is not...

We, the collective John Q. Public, are so sodden with dishonesty that we take the deer-in-the-headlights stance when the unfamiliar truth comes at us. This is especially true with our politicians and anyone tied to them. Sadly, being lied to is so commonplace to us that we practically need therapy to...

Undoubtedly you will recognize the name Mitt Romney, but you might not be familiar with the name Melissa Harris-Perry. Let’s take a look at her. Harris-Perry is a talk show host on MSNBC. That alone should automatically trigger your mind to Harris-Perry’s ugly genre, but the details of the...

Reportedly one of the main strategies used for Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012 was “focus.”  It was the simplicity and repetition of “hope” and “change.” Irrespective of the evidence that the “hope” part is fading and the “change” part is on a continuum of destruction, liberals,...

Hopefully this (unintended) fourth commentary on this subject will be the last. I just like to finish what I start. This began as a story about the powers-to-be in the public sector telling taxpayers they must pay breathtaking salaries, plus perks, to get “the best” for the job at hand. All...

When I recall my past fondness of Oprah Winfrey, I shudder at the wasted time, tributes and ill-placed good thoughts I felt for that now self-exposed, great big phony. For one, I was completely fooled by the window dressing of her television show she called “The Angel Network.” It was a theme of...

There is so much to say about Obamacare, it would be impossible to write it all in 10 commentaries, let alone one. Setting aside the febrile level of the whole Obamacare subject, there is one simple question: Why is Obamacare such a partisan issue? The weak minded jump to the worn-out excuse that Republicans...