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Cheap dates, bad shoppers, road woes
Happy Fourth, everyone, and welcome to our weekly Chat Day.
Confronting today's threats to independence
Dear Sgt. Hosbrook, though you are my ancestor, I thought it only fitting and proper to address you by your rank and title in that great war for independence t…
Celebrate – and preserve – the Constitution today
As a constitutional law professor, the Fourth of July provides me an opportunity to appraise the health of our grand “experiment,” a term Thomas Jefferson used…
Land of the free, home of the brave
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
July 4th was 'day that really counted'
We’re late, according to at least one founding father.
The heat is on in the central portions of the country
Summer heat has been blasting the central portions of the country. Temperatures in the 90s to near 100 degrees have been reported from Texas to Wisconsin as excessive heat warnings were issued across much of the ce…
Words from the wise
My good friend Dennis Edelbrock sent me the following update on how to remove the dreaded and bogus Microsoft pop-up scam program. I routinely get one to five calls per day from consumers about pop-ups. The followi…
Shopping cart deadly in his hands
Men should be banned from shopping.
Democratic women on the upswing
You don’t need a degree in political science to see that men far outnumber women in elected offices.
One way to strengthen our schools (and nation)
We Americans owe our freedom to a heritage going back 4,000 years. Yet most High School graduates are only taught about the past 300. This cultural heritage te…
Merger mayhem won't materialize
You can stay calm about the Avista deal, folks.
SCOTUS wraps up term with big bang
The travel ban isn’t the only Supreme Court decision making national waves. Wednesday brought a tidal turn in union law, overturning decades-old precedent and which could result in an exodus of public employees fro…
Insurance odds are stacked against you
Last week a middle-aged consumer, a husband and a father of three young children, called me to complain that he could not get life insurance. As the story unfolded, last year he noticed an unusual bump and discolor…
Sippin' Sammie keeps on truckin'
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Time for America to take a close look
On June 15, Donald Trump denied that he possessed the authority as president to end his very own family separation policy on our southern border. Trump declared: “We can’t do it by executive order.”