Native son Peter Kama, Kamehameha Schools ’53, Army private to lieutenant colonel, two Vietnam combat tours and one there as..
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This is not going to make local anti-GMOers jump for joy, but the news is that everything seems to be..
The controversial film The Interview hasn’t shown in Hawaii theaters. I’m not surprised. Read The New York Times any Sunday..
What a marvelous way to start the new year: the U.S. getting back in the global ball game with Cuba!..
I wonder what we’d have been like if America had not been founded by people espousing Christian values. What if,..
Those of us who espoused same-gender marriage on the grounds that government should not control whom we marry find ourselves..
Did President Obama defile the Constitution by halting some immigration prosecution, exempting some ObamaCare mandates and granting waivers to No..
All that news media coverage of Bill Cosby’s alleged sexual misbehavior has made me a bit queasy. Had I been..
I’ll be sitting down Thanksgiving evening to a dinner with my wife and six friends, and I know I’m expected..
There’s nothing quite like witnessing, close up, a Big Island volcanic eruption and the subsequent flow of either smooth pahoehoe..
Memo to: Pat Saiki, GOP State Chair woman Did you have a moment last Tuesday when you wished you were..
I hope most of you readers will agree with this: That was a pathetic attempt by police union president Tenari..
Most everyone I meet has an idea how to make our education system better. The perception persists here that we..
If you’re from Hawaii and familiar with our Native Hawaiian “tribal” or “kingdom” issue, it’s fascinating to visit South Dakota..
National columnists sometimes write the silliest things. (I am only local and, ipso facto, exempt from that charge!) Thomas Sowell..
There’s been a surfeit of punditry about the perceived faults that caused the political downfalls of Neil Abercrombie and Mufi..
There seems to be a cluster of compassionate folks opposed to any “criminalization” of the homeless — that is, they..
I just don’t understand the reasoning by those who say we cannot demolish Waikiki Natatorium because it was erected as..
I think I can say without contradiction that the heavily secular Western nations are engaged in a couple of wars..
It would seem logical for more people in Hawaii to ride a moped. Maybe more so than a bike because..