I can’t quite get my mind around all that sniping about the movie American Sniper, up for best picture/best actor..
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According to an AP report out of Cairo, Egypt’s new president, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, opened the new year with a..
I whooped with unrestrained joy when Obamacare passed in the Congress and was declared OK by the Supreme Court. It..
A resident of Leeward Oahu for the past 40 years and an occasional palm-sweating victim of its traffic jams, I’ve..
A couple of Mondays ago, legislators milled about the floor of the House of Representatives, awaiting the call to order..
Why am I getting nervous and uneasy about Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, the rookie Democrat representative from Hawaii? It’s not just..
Anyone who knows a Texan knows how proud Texans are of “Texas Hospitality.” I have a Texan friend (aside from..
Last week, television cameras caught Hawaii’s lei bedecked new 1st District U.S. Rep. Mark Takai, a Democrat, beaming through President..
This is the week the Army hosts some “listening to you” sessions about the future of the military presence in..
Native son Peter Kama, Kamehameha Schools ’53, Army private to lieutenant colonel, two Vietnam combat tours and one there as..
Selma begins with Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo, Norway, trying to tie an unfamiliar neckpiece before going on stage..
Deadlines and word lengths leave too many stories unpub lished in a writer’s notebook — stuff that someday will be..
Like many who have read Laura Hillenbrand’s book Unbroken, the impeccably researched story of Olympic runner Louie Zamperini, the film..
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..
More than 90 years ago, H.L. Mencken, the journalistic “sage of Baltimore,” defined democracy as that system of government in..
What a marvelous way to start the new year: the U.S. getting back in the global ball game with Cuba!..
This week we say “goodbye” to 2014. Some may mumble “good riddance” to it as well. But for moderates and..
Dear Mr. President, I hope this finds you, Michelle and your lovely daughters enjoying Christmas in Hawaii. I apologize for..
Christmas Eve of 1968 found me less than two years into my seven-year incarceration as a POW in North Vietnam...
