Ron's Blog

OUR DIVERSE HERITAGE - AS A FOUNDING CONCEPT When we consider the problems that were faced at the founding of this nation, one critical truth alm...

An example of the depths to which American politics has plunged. During the entire sixty years of my adult life, I’ve never before been witness t...

ELEGY “What’s coming, and what can we do about it? ” This is an insight into this nation’s future, now held in the hands of a political party tha...

The acquittal of George Zimmerman disturbs me enormously. Not so much for its abrasion of my sense of justice, but for the massive threat which tha...

Someone like myself, who has reached the age 79, easily settles into the illusion that “I've seen it all.” I was born into the era of America’s Gr...

Before falling prey to that old chestnut - “Both parties are the same - they’re all just political bad buys.” - the reader should take a closer lo...

As a person whose been deeply involved in the collecting of stamps and coins from more than half a century - in the world of numismatics, I’ve se...

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What can be said about the Newtown tragedy, beyond the fact that it’s a hellish comment on the nature of our times. Before commentary is offered o...

As always, it is painful to write in such terms as "Us vs. Them" however when one considers the mark of a man or women as the measure of their act...