WASHINGTON -- Sure, build a ballroom dwarfing the clean and classic design of the White House. Go ahead, murder the history of Lafayette Square with prison bars keeping tourists away from our traditional place of dissent. Close the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since it ...
So, it was a war for oil after all. On social media Friday, President Trump announced that the United States and Venezuela have struck an agreement for "THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY." The whole thing is appalling, starting with the all-caps. I have no love for the Venezuelan ...
It's midterms crunch time, so we are hearing endless political promises from all candidates. My hope is that with so much talk about affordability and economic growth, a voter or two would raise their hand and ask about price controls and credit card caps. These might seem such minuscule ...
The diagnosis was not a surprise - well, yes it was, because like many men with a health issue we try to deny it, or delay treatment when everyone knows that "early detection" is critical to a cure. My PSA (prostate-specific antigen) had been slowly creeping upward for the last two years. ...
Arthurdale's New Deal Experiment, and the Debate Over Socialism ARTHURDALE, West Virginia -- The road into this quiet Preston County community gives little warning that it was once the setting for one of the New Deal's most ambitious, and most debated, experiments. Ninety-three years ago, ...
There are many ways to measure the life someone lived. We can count the awards, money earned, companies built or the number of people who knew their name. When Dolly Parton died Tuesday at 80, she left behind a different kind of measurement. Her greatest legacy may be found in the people who ...
