Welcome to my new web site!
Like millions of people, I have sat for days beside a designer—in my case a very talented artist named Dave Turner, who can be ... Read more...
In response to several requests, I am posting below the remarks I made at the funeral of veteren broadcaster, Jud Collins, on January 2, 2009.
There was a Broadway show ... Read more...
Over the past two years, since my own political talk show bit the dust after a twenty year run, I have watched a lot of television news and talk shows. ... Read more...
Throughout history, similar conditions have produced similar results. How many wars have been waged from a simple miscalculation? How many leaders who left office in disgrace once enjoyed immense popularity? ... Read more...
The first talk show I ever appeared on was our supper table when I was growing up. My dad was the host. In a casual manner, he’d offer up a ... Read more...
I opened a FaceBook account this week. Like water gushing through a faucet, people—old chums, former colleagues, even a long lost cousin—came pouring into my friends list. More than a ... Read more...
Simple questions are the most difficult ones to answer truthfully.
For example, when asked, “How do you feel?” Or “How are you?” Or “How you doing?” How many people truthfully ... Read more...
My new novel, “A Particle of God,” is now available for pre-release order.
That means it won’t be in the bookstores until March 27th…but you can buy it exclusively from ... Read more...
If I were broadcasting the news that radio legend Paul Harvey died, I would end the announcement with the country song, “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes?” For indeed we have ... Read more...
I was thumbing through a copy of Sports Illustrated magazine the other day while sitting in the waiting room of my dentist’s office—I was there to get a root canal—when ... Read more...
One of the upsides of growing up in a small town was that you knew everybody. One of the downsides of growing up in a small town was that everybody ... Read more...
I underwent what could only be described as a philosophic CAT-scan this week. Karlen Evins, my co-host on our Internet broadcast, Beyond Reason, interviewed me! The subject was my new ... Read more...
I lost three friends recently. The most recent was Dan Miller, a long time television news anchor in the Nashville market. He was an anomaly in today’s culture. While polls ... Read more...
A perfect storm requires three factors. We’ve already got two: the worldwide economic depression and possible swine flu pandemic. What will the third leg be?
How about climate change wreaking ... Read more...
Occasionally on this page, I will reflect on memories of interviews past, photos of which are displayed on Teddy’s Photo Gallery page of this web site.
This one is about ... Read more...
There is a place behind the eyes where affinity lies. There, in that place behind the eyes, a kind of fondness, an attraction, affection, and kinship occurs or re-occurs between ... Read more...
The perception of Ronald Reagan today is so different from the public image of Reagan when I interviewed him in the mid-70s. Today’s Reagan is a beloved former President who ... Read more...
