There were many heroes who risked their lives and in some cases lost their lives during the zenith of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1968 (from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 until MLK's assassination in Memphis…
While I was on vacation in Montana, our good friend Father Joe passed. What a remarkable servant of God he was. I first met Father Joe in 1985 and several years later was honored to represent him in a lawsuit…
This is the second of a two-part series on the abuses of the PRC in China. Last month discussed the crushing of dissent in Hong Kong by arrests, imprisonment, the shutting of independent newspapers, the purging of libraries and the…
As the imprisonment of gentle and courageous people in Hong Kong continues unabated by the thugs who run The People's Republic of China, it is time to honor the multitude of courageous people who engage in non-violent protest and condemn…
My hero of the month is Shon Boney. The Boney family were very good friends of my family dating back to the late 1930s when my dad Earl Roberts first met Henry Boney (Shon's granddad). My dad lived in La…
In 2005, I had the pleasure of meeting Nina Rosenwald at her office in The Chrysler Building in New York City while leading a national referendum in the Presbyterian Church USA. Later, I learned that she was the granddaughter of…
For over 40 years, I have read Aviation Week & Space Technology at the urging of my beloved college professor, Dr. Harold W. "Bill" Rood. During that time, AW&ST has had many gifted writers, but one of my all-time favorites…
As I have commented many times, while we need to address problems related to policing minority communities, increasingly the victims of senseless killings are wonderful people recruited from minority communities to serve in law enforcement. (See my Hero of the…
On May 27, 2019, Bill Buckner died at the age of 69. We got to know Bill and his wife Jody on a week-long rafting trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River almost 20 years ago and thoroughly…
There has been a debate in law enforcement circles for several years about the best response to the all-too-frequent situations involving armed attacks on schools. The emerging consensus seems to support immediate and direct intervention even at the risk of…