Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco and visited Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's epic mansion in San Simeon. It was state property then, donated by the Hearst family, and ...

Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed. "This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize ...

Established shortly after the Civil War, Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for Americans to honor those who have sacrificed their lives defending American democracy. So it was exquisitely on-brand for a president who defrauded the U.S. military by fabricating "bone spurs" to evade ...

The lights and colors from the woods feed my spirit. Darkness can be depressing. Life combines light and dark, good and evil. I still have a hard time seeing an evil heart. I have never met a truly evil person. Think what it must take to convince a child or an adult to kill people they don’t ...

The sojourn up to T.C. to squeeze in some quality holiday family time began uneventfully on Thursday to avoid the holiday traffic. About forty minutes in, the cell went off. Having forgotten to take it out of the trouser pocket, and remembering that Smoky was ticketing those who drive and work ...

How is it that the "Saxophone Colossus" Sonny Rollins lived to 95? Aren't jazz musicians supposed to die at tragically early ages? Actually, that's a myth that Rollins and others proved flawed. It's true that Bix Beiderbecke, king of the cornet, was gone at 28, Charlie Parker at 34, Dinah ...