Galas and Gay Marriage

It’s been a couple of very busy months. I’ve been working overtime on final preparations for our upcoming annual awards Gala banquet that honors exceptional individuals, mostly from the law enforcement community. And earlier last month, the U.S. Supreme Court passed a...

Tolerance Works Both Ways

An interesting thing happened on Tues. July 14th; the Irvine City Council approved in a 4-to-1 vote to display two phrases in their City Hall. They are; e pluribus unum and, In God We Trust. The former is Latin for, ‘Out of the many, one’. This is a breath of fresh...

My View of The View

What an embarrassment – I tuned in the other day to the morning show, The View, and Whoopi Goldberg was saying there was a lot of stuff going on with Bill Cosby and the recent disclosure of a previously sealed deposition of his admitting under oath that he intended to...

Do You Believe in Miracles?

Now before most of you get your underpants all twisted up in a knot, I’m not talking about ‘miracles’ in a biblical sense or even in a religious sense. I’m talking about miracles in a purely statistical way. You know, like against all odds. Often we hear of these...

Women, Rape and the Military

A couple weeks ago I interviewed a special guest on my radio show, Rowena Darvin-Varab, a disabled Army veteran. She was in charge of a platoon while serving in Iraq, and sadly, she was raped by one of the men in her platoon. Rape in the military is much more...