West, Texas It has been six months since the fertilizer plant here exploded, killing 15, injuring more than 200 and leveling a swath of this small town 70 miles south of Fort Worth. The debris has been hauled off, rebuilding is underway, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration this month handed down $118,300 in […]

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Oh my God. It is so hard to log on and, when you do, you can’t get anywhere. Clearly, Obamacare is a disaster. I blame two things for that. One is computers which although a huge benefit to humanity are a royal pain in the butt. I mean who could have imagined a system that […]

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(National Institutes of Health | Source: NIH)  On a damp Friday morning, 11 days into the government shutdown, a few dozen truckers took to the Capital Beltway to tell lawmakers they were angry. They were protesting big government. Yet opinion polls showed that Americans opposed the government shutdown and were hurting because of it. At […]

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I love going out to eat. I love experiencing new meals and returning to tried-and-true favorites. Given the growing number who regularly eat out, I’d say most of America feels the same way. Until recently I shared something else with most of America: for all the hundreds of restaurant meals I had eaten, I knew […]

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There is a new normal in America: Our government may shut down, but our wars continue. Congress may not be able to pass a budget, but the U.S. military can still launch commando raids in Libya and Somalia, the Afghan War can still be prosecuted, Italy can be garrisoned by American troops (putting the “empire” […]

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