Anniversary Quest

Anniversary Quest By Dr. Jim Ferguson A quest often connotes something heroic or perhaps noteworthy. My quest was not heroic, but perhaps noteworthy. Mr. Webster explains that a quest is an act of seeking, so my return to Crater Lake National Park in Oregon fits the...

Martyrdom

“You have no idea what you have unleashed.” (Erika Kirk after her husband’s murder) By Dr. Jim Ferguson It is a challenge for a weekly column to be contemporaneous with current events. However, it is probably best that my immediate reaction to the monster who murdered...

The Enemy Among Us

The Enemy Among Us By Dr. Jim Ferguson Everyone predicted it would get worse. And it has. Because the left is losing the culture war, it has now added terrorism by political assassination to its repertoire. It has been a bad week for America. An Auburn professor was...

Judicial Activism

Judicial Activism If you want to write laws, run for office. Laura Ingraham By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ll admit at the start of this essay that I’m not a legal expert, and perhaps I’m in over my head with this topic. But that’s OK because I’m writing from the perspective...

Obsession

Obsession To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. Thomas Paine By Dr. Jim Ferguson Where do they find these corporate “marketeers?” I’m not talking about the old Disney Mouseketeers, who knew their...

Vacation

Vacation By Dr. Jim Ferguson Is the notion of a vacation irrelevant if you are retired and every day is a holiday from work? I retired from medicine after 45 years and a lifetime of meeting schedules. But now the publisher’s deadline for this weekly column is my only...