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“I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.” more...— Occupy Wall Street sign |
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“I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.” more...— Occupy Wall Street sign |
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I am about as Indiana as it gets. Or so I've been told. I never turn off a John Cougar Mellencamp song when it's on the radio. I truly believe the Indy 500 is the greatest spectacle in racing. And I've seen “Hoosiers” and...
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Green energy is among the myriad reasons to keep our national forests open to the “many uses” intended by the Forest Reserve Act of 1891. Federally owned forests comprise 192 million acres. According to some estimates, nearly 80 percent of...
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WASHINGTON — Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman's right to contraception or abortion.
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Almost every day we are confronted with another self-contradictory political statement or oxymoron. Here are just a few I have collected over the last few months, and you can be sure there will be many more in the months ahead.
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This is a big birthday year for me. I would be fibbing if I said this particular age milestone isn't continuously on my mind. And I have still have three months to go.
I may be overthinking it a bit. |
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Do you think the United States is exporting more petroleum than it imports? Nothing could be further from the truth.
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At the end of every semester, I extract critiques of my composition classes from my students, usually while I am plying them with a homemade cake. With extreme clarity, they tell me that they are grateful for having had a voice — a way to express...
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WASHINGTON — A Friday New York Times story that essentially indicted and convicted a 22-year-old star football player on an alleged sexual assault charge by an anonymous accuser should have begun as follows:
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The exhausted 16-ounce Red Bull can was still lying in the gutter as I walked home. The thought to pick it up and carry it to a recycle bin 50 yards away didn't occur to me until later.
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“Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse for both the addict and the rest of us.”
— Milton Friedman |
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I love what a good snowfall does for the soul.
Especially here in the mountains. |
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Did you ever wonder what our predecessors did to relieve pain?
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Public health professionals in Colorado and around the country have legitimate concerns about possible exposures and related health effects associated with natural gas development and production. As yet, public health professionals have not had the...
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SILT, Colorado — Coal Ridge High School art teacher Leah Wynveen noticed a deep well of talent and a need in the art department course offerings.
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WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich's standing ovation Thursday night, when he attacked CNN moderator John King for asking about allegations that Gingrich wanted an “open marriage” with his second wife, told us little about South Carolina,...
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