June 18, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      This imperfect experiment called America, conceived in great, precipice-style argument by the Framers, not fully realized as to intent and potential, nevertheless has endured. Winston Churchill, the half-American: “Democracy… Continue reading

June 11, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com        There is, in depression, a numbness, the nerve endings dulled by a sinisterly administered anesthetic. There is a cloud about you, as if you are in a… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com BETHESDA, Md. — Sometimes you have to leave home to go home again. That was the case on my last day, four days later, in this ever-expanding D.C. suburb. Government must water even the… Continue reading

May 28, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com There’s an analogy between “English” muffins and the present government of the United States, once known as “of, by and for the people’ and now an oligarchy. In Englishman Samuel Bath… Continue reading

May 20, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com One snowy evening a long time ago, with the temperature not so low that a walker would freeze and not so high that there would be rainy ice, and with the… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Blauvelt to West Nyack, N.Y. — Along the Western Highway, simply named centuries ago because so few roads existed that there was no need to use developers’ favored children’s monikers, a three-mile… Continue reading

May 7, 2018   By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In the tucked-away room, in the original attic, was a very tall radiator and a very small rocking chair where the ghost, quite friendly, dwelled much of the… Continue reading

“1956, Pink and Gray” May 1, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumrule.com Art — painting — is like life: abstract, realistic or symbolic, captured fragments of what could be a full conversation or perhaps just the wisps of one.… Continue reading

April 23, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com The decency that was Barbara Bush, the late first lady, is in sharp contrast to the White House norm these days. That has to be said whether you are the tearful… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com If true readers were the only people newspapers and Internet information providers had to be concerned about, there would be little reason for this essay. They are hooked on the news, educated and brought… Continue reading