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As bad as the Ebola epidemic may seem, it has occurred to me that there is a far more dangerous..
Numbers tell stories — among them that primary election day 2014 constituted a damning indictment of Hawaii’s democracy. On Aug...
Mufi Hannemann’s gubernatorial campaign recently competed with a sunset. Any sunset offers stiff competition, but a “Waianae Sunset on the..
National columnists sometimes write the silliest things. (I am only local and, ipso facto, exempt from that charge!) Thomas Sowell..
“The Military Writers Society of America has awarded its gold medal for historical fiction to Hawaii author Richard McMahon for..
Ah, how I yearn for the good old days. Remember when godless Commies threatened us from East, West, North, South:..
There’s been a surfeit of punditry about the perceived faults that caused the political downfalls of Neil Abercrombie and Mufi..
Gary Moniz comes to my house in years ending in a 2 or a 7. Around the Boylans’ dining room..
There seems to be a cluster of compassionate folks opposed to any “criminalization” of the homeless — that is, they..
As I compose this column, I realize it was in the evening exactly two weeks ago that wife Susan and..
I just don’t understand the reasoning by those who say we cannot demolish Waikiki Natatorium because it was erected as..
Some questions always should be finessed, particularly by those of us who would deign to call ourselves political analysts —..
Check your favorite neighborhood political sign-bedecked fence. Lookin’ pretty empty, isn’t it? All those Abercrombie signs, all those Hanabusa banners,..
I think I can say without contradiction that the heavily secular Western nations are engaged in a couple of wars..
My last column, in which I laid out my own concep tion of the likely Ferguson grand jury findings on..
An American journalist on his knees, a hooded and masked ISIS butcher standing over him, knife in hand. The American,..
It would seem logical for more people in Hawaii to ride a moped. Maybe more so than a bike because..
Republican Duke Aiona, Libertarian Jeff Davis, Independent Mufi Hannemann and Democrat David Ige all want to succeed Neil Abercrombie as..
Pfc. Raymond Nosaka was inurned at Punchbowl National Cemetery last week. There was a small obit when he died at..