Making Valentine’s Day More Meaningful

Making Valentine’s Day More Meaningful

Valentine’s Day, it seems, has all the trappings of a made-up Hallmark holiday. It’s a holiday created purely to encourage us to go out and give our money to a few select industries: greeting cards, candy, roses, restaurants, etc. As it turns out, the...
The Unaffordable WeDon’tCare Act

The Unaffordable WeDon’tCare Act

Remember when it looked like the Republican Party could do nothing but stamp its feet and shout about the Affordable Care Act’s shortcomings without coming up with any alternatives? OK, there was former Sen. Jim DeMint’s suggestion last summer that having...
Taking Tailgate Patrol to the Next Level

Taking Tailgate Patrol to the Next Level

In the ever-escalating competition to be the No. 1 big-time college football program in the nation, Ohio State University bulked up last fall with a monster recruit named Maxx. Actually, it’s not the coaching staff that signed this brute, but the OSU campus...
Winning Elections by Hook or by Crook

Winning Elections by Hook or by Crook

The chance to win Seems so remote, When the Man decides Who gets to vote. Political operatives are running websites with smiling photos of Democratic candidates as part of a fundraising campaign. But there’s a catch: They’re asking for money to defeat...
The Minimum We Can Do to Fight Inequality

The Minimum We Can Do to Fight Inequality

The political profile of economic inequality in America has certainly been growing. So has the political confusion over what overcoming inequality will take. Unfortunately, President Barack Obama’s latest State of the Union address may only add to that confusion....