Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions. "Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup. Of 14 core institutions - banks, big business, labor, ...
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. ...
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 U.S. national debt just crossed the $40 trillion threshold, doubling in less than a decade. Washington politicians have responded with their favorite fiscal game: blaming the other party. Democrats say Republican tax cuts are the culprit. Republicans say Democratic spending is the ...
Since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I am told, I was not surprised to hear Dolly Parton say in an interview that she once entered a "Dolly Parton lookalike" drag queen contest in Los Angeles unannounced – and lost. Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, enjoyed telling that ...
