Social Security is indeed a Ponzi scheme. —Texas Governor Rick Perry, November 2010.

Where’s the sense of outrage that David McGuinn’s alleged killers have dodged justice for the past five years?

If the late Rev. Harold Dobson were still alive I would be reluctant to write this column about the clergy. Rev. Dobson would alternately criticize me as a renegade preacher or one without portfolio and then get on my case about beating up on the clergy in the newspaper all the time.

Before political correctness marginalized the link between racial disparity and low academic achievement, Dr. Carter G. Woodson wrote The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861— A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the beginning of Slavery to the Civil War.

Will the people who run those entities called the “Division of Correction” and the “Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services” simply admit they have it in for Marshall “Eddie” Conway? I believe they will all feel a lot better if they ’fess up.

I was forced to watch Bill O'Reilly the other day. No gun was held to my head and no group of conservative ruffians tied me up and forced me to listen to the hypocritical gas bag. I was in a Chinese carryout waiting for an order of Hunan chicken and the Fox station was blaring from the flat screen television mounted on the wall.

Six weeks before my son’s high school graduation, I drew up a list of longtime friends and relatives to invite to the commencement. For such a momentous occasion, I used a fountain pen to address the invitations old-school cursive style. Eschewing abbreviations, except for courtesy titles, each name and address was lovingly written and punctuated.

John Mackey never had to tackle John Mackey.