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 ...
In 2022, politicians in Minneapolis and St. Paul voted for rent control. I said that would lead to bigger problems. Was I right? St. Paul politicians pushed rent control, saying rent caps would stop "unfair profiteering." But what the heck is "profiteering," and how is it ...
As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 nears, the biggest disgrace is that the attack's evil mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has not been tried and sentenced. Blame the American Civil Liberties Union, in large part, for this injustice. The ACLU intervened at the start, insisting that ...
As my high school and college classmates and I have gotten older, I have noticed that when birthday shoutouts go out on Facebook, many say they thank God for "another trip around the sun." This wasn't a saying that I grew up hearing, but it definitely has special meaning now in the ...
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, Arthurdale, West Virginia, became the first experimental community established under ...
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. ...
