Prisoner’s Rights Run Amok

BY DIANE DIMOND Recently, I wrote about the sometimes deadly lack of air conditioning for prisoners during our blisteringly hot summers. Despite several inmate deaths in cellblocks with temperatures as high as 130 degrees, I got a raft of reader emails taking me to task for being too soft on convicts. This week, I turn […]

Congress is Putting Rural Patients on the Chopping Block

BY EDWARD LUTTRELL There’s a misguided cost-cutting plan being discussed on Capitol Hill that could severely jeopardize the health of millions of rural Americans. Community cancer clinics across the country could be forced to shut down, leaving many patients living outside of major cities without anyone to treat them. This plan centers on Medicare Part […]

Dollars & Sense: After a weak jobs report, more trouble ahead

BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services Year over year, the S&P 500 has now risen nearly 20%, and is up over 11% year to date. Over the same time frame, corporate earnings have only risen about 7%. Although markets are cheering some of the recent economic data and the progress being made […]

America’s Pastime a Crime?

BY DIANE DIMOND The Great American pastime isn’t just one thing, it is lots of things. There is the game of baseball. There’s eating apple pie. And there is poker. It is the card game played by millions of Americans in nearly every community in every state of the union. The first two activities are […]

Liberty Center: World Trade Center Relic Cross Attacked

Press Release from the Liberty Center The 17-foot, relic cross found amongst the rubble at the World Trade Center is the center of a lawsuit filed by the American Atheists Foundation. The lawsuit complains of unequal representation. The cross was dedicated to the World Trade Center Memorial. After it was found amongst the debris, workers […]

Confusion in Charlotte

Confusion in Charlotte

Woops! While saluting our men and women in the armed forces at last week’s Democratic National Convention, the party of Jefferson accidentally (we presume) showed video footage of Russian warships on the Black Sea, instead of an American naval fleet. Rob Barker is the man who first spotted the error. “I was kind of in […]