The word that best describes how former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wielded the responsibilities he undertook in public affairs over a long career, is “unintimidated.” Cheney, who died early this month, was unintimidated by his rise to become White House chief of staff at age 34 in ...
A friend recently told me they were dreading the holidays. I get it. Holidays can be stressful. The idea of socializing with relatives you don’t see all the time or don’t always get along with can feel a bit daunting. Whether it’s because of political disagreements, a divorce or another ...
Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner. Recently, Lipscomb and his crew encountered an unknown pocket of water when a “sudden and substantial” flood sent millions of gallons into the Rolling Thunder Mine. Lipscomb lived up to his life of ...
In 2006, a few days before Christmas, doctors announced my wife had six months to live. She had, they said, a rare form of cancer that had spread to her lungs. There was really nothing that could be done. We had a one-year-old and I had been told my job was coming to an end the same day of the ...
Is President Donald Trump losing the winning coalition he built just a year ago? He’s been the subject of premature political obituaries before — but Republicans are worried about signs that his gains with Hispanics are evaporating. Trump stunned pundits last year by very nearly ...
I’ll start by making a few things clear: I love my father, I love cooking and I love Thanksgiving. And now that the throat-clearing is done, I can move on to the complaining. Because of all dishes in all the holidays on the calendar, there’s nothing like the Thanksgiving turkey for ...