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Bullies, public and private, need a reminder of the rules
Sunday, April 21, 2013
We the People are tired of being trod on, so let’s put the bullies on notice to stop their treading or we’ll all join hands, stick together, and even sing Kumbaya. Maybe even not vote for them or buy their toxic lies. That’ll show them.
Trained responders share human impulse to run toward danger
Sunday, April 21, 2013
There is the world of acts and there is the world of words. And America saw both the other day when the bombs went off at the finish of the Boston Marathon.
Boy Scouts of America must defend its long-held convictions
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Corporate elites and gay activists are demanding the Scouts drop their long standing prohibition against open homosexuality within the Scouts. Changing the policy would be a drastic mistake. It would not only dramatically alter the ethos of Scouting, but would undermine the principles of being a Boy Scout.
Boy Scouts should embrace all Americans
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Believing scouting to be a good experience that all boys should have the opportunity to participate in, I found the Boy Scouts of America’s policy of discrimination just plain wrong.
From Newtown to Texas, Obama becomes consoler in chief
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Presidents are judged in history almost as much by how they made a country feel about itself as what they accomplished.
Government can’t spend beyond means to boost economic growth
Sunday, April 14, 2013
The truth is we can’t tax our way out of our fiscal mess.
GPI is better way to monitor economy, warn of meltdowns
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Why should we make these changes and rely more on the GPI in the future? Well, to put it simply, standard economic growth indicators aren’t yielding enough information.
Ending so-called ‘mortgage kickbacks’ won’t help borrowers
Sunday, April 14, 2013
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is right that mortgage reinsurance arrangements are really kickbacks for the referral of business, but it is wrong in suggesting that eliminating them will reduce costs to borrowers. In my view, it is just as likely, perhaps more likely, that the cost to borrowers will increase.
Inspirational teachers at SCCC paved way to successful education
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Since SCCC, I have earned undergraduate and graduate degrees and a university certificate of advanced study. But it was the small two-year school on the banks of the Mohawk that provided not only the strong foundation, but the impetus, the craving, the drive to further my studies.
Feds need money to rehire workers
Sunday, April 14, 2013
America’s economy is poised to roar ahead if only Washington would stop holding it back.
U.S. can find way to defuse Korean situation
Sunday, April 14, 2013
North Korea is a despicable tyranny but who will bell this cat? Who in the United Nations, United States, Europe or Asia wants to drive into North Korea and insist that Kim Jong Un and his military leaders stop ruling over millions of its citizens as tyrants?
If women wrote The Commandments, one might be ‘Don’t be so hard on thyself’
Sunday, April 14, 2013
While it’s been lovely listening to the patriarchs from the Pentateuch lay down the law for the last several thousand years, it’s time to imagine what the Old Testament matriarchs might have said.
Texting disrupts our conversation, but we are still figuring out the new rules
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Texting is one of those habits that came so quickly to our society that everything from schools to hospitals to state capitals — institutions that say things in full sentences and without emoticons — are scrambling to impose rules of the road, literally and figuratively.
Loss of GOP support could hamper Cuomo’s future efforts
Sunday, March 31, 2013
If the right is now done with him, Cuomo may have to go to Plan B: Act like a Democrat.
Questionable ethics, integrity true price of ‘free’ journalism
Sunday, March 31, 2013
People who make their living by writing for publication had good reason to follow the recent hoo-hah over publishers who think paying writers for their work is optional.
