This past week, Q-line asked: As if times weren’t hard enough, the county sales tax recently increased making big purchases all the more difficult while putting more pressure on families looking to save money.
I know it’s not the same as toiling in the mines, but writing is hard work. That’s why it’s so impressive to me when someone is prolific. Thriller novelist Robert Ludlum, author of “The Bourne Identity,” among others, is an example.
When I first came to Congress in the 1960s, dialogue between members of Congress and their constituents was straightforward. Every so often, a lawmaker would get interviewed on radio or television.
In the early 1960s, comedian Foster Brooks was famous in nightclubs and on TV for his brilliant portrayal of a lovable drunk. Lenny Bruce had a routine called “The White Collar Drunk,” a successful businessman who was perfectly groomed but so blitzed out of his brain he argued with everyone in the b
I’ve spent a lot of time getting to know myself recently, but not through therapy (been there, done that), a diary (there’s not enough space in the Library of Congress to store my extensive body of work so I’ve temporarily stopped journaling until they build an annex) or meditation.
In many ways, our great country is now at a crossroads. Will we continue to build on the values that helped to make us great, including a reliance on our native ingenuity, creativity, and work ethic? Or will we get soft and look evermore toward bigger government to take care of us? Today we are faci
Anna (Jenny O’Hara) has been almost dying for years. But each time she is carted off to the hospital, she rallies, bounces out of her “deathbed” and returns to her home in Brooklyn.
Last week I back-handed modern day binge and purge feminism. This week I’m monkey slapping upon the australopithicene antics of my own antediluvian gender tribe.
When I first heard an American ship, the Maersk Alabama, had been attacked by four pirates off the coast of Somalia, I thought I bumped my head and woke up in 1815.
You glance right, then left. Next your eyes focus on the defender in front of you as your feet dance around him. You dribble the ball another five feet, stop, turn on a dime.
Our home Earth is an extraordinary planet. The diversity and abundance of life is breathtaking. About 4.5 billion years ago a planet roughly the size of Mars collided with Earth.
Q: My son’s friend just got his driver license and has offered to give my son a ride to school since we live nearby. Both boys are 17 and tell me it’s legally OK, but I suspect they may be bending the rules.
