My regular morning coffee group gets to the nuts and bolts of what’s wrong with America each morning as we hash it all out over strong chicory and beignets. 

Do young voters really care about who runs their local, state and federal government?

In spite of all the turmoil and tragedy visited on the little town of Moore, Oklahoma last week, one fact stands out:  Every family with a storm cellar survived. 

Two seasoned political pros, who have lost a bit of their luster, may make the same big grab for political limelight in Washington.

In the past week, the Washington establishment is in crisis mode over a series of revelations of government intrusions that would seem to go way over
the line of what is constitutionally legal. 

In the movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas’s character Gordon Gecko summed up the attitude of major U.S. banks quite well: “Greed is good.”

Is there something special about New Orleans? Of course there is.

After years of financial chicanery, federal prosecutors have decided that Wall Street manipulators are both too big to fail and too big to jail.

For most non-Catholics, the retirement and resignation of Pope Benedict XVI is of passing interest. I’m not Catholic, but the Catholic Church has played a significant role in my life for many years. 

Immigration reform is back on the front burner as a major issue in Washington, and the Republicans are taking the lead.