Articles by Frank Hill

One great thing about going on a two-week trip out west is the almost total lack of modern technology connectivity.  No cellphone 5G bars high in the mountains. Very limited Wi-Fi available only on the […]

We just returned from a 12-day sojourn in a campervan through Glacier, Yellowstone and Teton national parks ― it was terrific, trust me; everyone should do it if you can ― and came away with […]

On Aug. 7, Oliver Anthony of Farmville, Virginia, recorded a song out back on his farm next to a pond with a dog at his feet. He had made others in the past which hardly […]

We recently visited Washington, D.C., and explored the art museums since we haven’t been to them since we left Northern Virginia in 2007 and they were all free. We got to visit with our oldest […]

Joe Biden apparently never called the Senate Ethics office during his 36-year career on Capitol Hill.  “If you have to call the Ethics Department to get advice, it’s probably not the right thing to do […]

Taxpayers of Charlotte and North Carolina ― don’t fall for any new taxpayer-funded professional sports stadiums.   With the recent sale of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets plus the ownership change for the NFL’s Carolina Panthers in […]

Mark Twain is attributed as saying in his own inimitable humorous, acerbic and somewhat cavalier manner: “Everyone complains about the weather ― but no one does anything about it.”  Let’s do something about it. Now. […]

A century from today, future historians may look back at a single incident and wonder if it was not one of the most absurd acts in American history ― assuming, of course, the USA survives […]

Affirmative action in college admissions was a decades-long attempt to get rid of the “everything else” category when it came to applying to two prestigious universities, Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill.   Any disparity in grade […]