Home run is the way many are describing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s address to the Democratic Convention. I agree. Yet when the word home run is used, I think of former Cardinal slugger Mark McGuire. Many of his home runs…

To say that the presidential debate at Saddleback Church “shows a true Jeffersonian spirit” hardly expresses Jefferson’s position that there should be an insurmountable wall between church and state. Nor does it represent the sentiments of The Father of the…

Former Police Chief Mokwa resigned for abusing the power of his office. It sends a poor message that we will pay him some $700,000 plus $80,000 a year for the rest of his life. But I am especially puzzled by…

Experience is the knowledge of History. Somewhere in between what we are taught and what we believe is the Truth. I have experienced being an American of what was the United States before we became the red and blue states.…

I see John Rich, a country music star, is appearing in O’Fallon, MO, on Sunday.

And - his backup band will be John McCain (and his wife), Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee.

They play wind instruments, right?

Thomas F. Maher

Kirkwood…

Gubernatorial candidate Kenny Hulshof has given voters yet another reason why not to vote for him. His proposed health care plan is the reason why. Following the same discriminatory path as Matt Blunt, Hulshof continues to ignore the disabled, elderly and…

Although I hadn’t yet read the Comics Section in today’s Post-Dispatch, I did nevertheless manage to laugh as I read Dwight Billingsly’s assertion that he thinks he knows how “Obama can be beaten”. Given that Mr. Billingsly has never won…

Although I hadn’t yet read the Comics Section in today’s Post-Dispatch, I did nevertheless manage to laugh as I read Dwight Billingsly’s assertion that he thinks he knows how “Obama can be beaten”. Given that Mr. Billingsly has never won…

Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I have a dream speech” meant little to me as a sheltered suburban teenager who had little understanding of the gap between the realty and the dream. Forty years later I had the privilege to be…