Edmund Robbins Mabie – A Civil War Tribute* Edmund Mabie was my great grandfather on my mother’s side. He married…
A Tribute To Simeon Ikins On July 3rd* Simeon Ikins was the brother of Mary Ann Ikins, who married George…
The ascendency of Donald Trump to be the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party invites analysis, if not sackcloth, ashes,…
On the 1st anniversary of the Charleston, SC church shooting Steve is reprising his poem of last year because we…
Pathologists perform autopsies to determine cause of death and contributing factors. In the June 12, 2016 mass murder in Orlando,…
Once again the VA is under attack from the right. Here are some thoughts from 34 years in the trenches.…
I was invited by the Medical Student Maimonides Society to participate in an interfaith physician panel to discuss various questions…
Because 2016 is a political year, intelligent discussion of many of the problems facing humankind in the immediate future will…
Donald Trump recently said that Hillary Clinton got “schlonged” by Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic Presidential primary elections. This…
Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677, was a Dutch, Jewish philosopher of Portuguese ancestry. Spain expelled its Jews in 1492 as did Portugal…