Oh the anticipation. I remember it well. As I look back on it now, the anticipation perhaps was the best part of getting the Sears Wish Book in late summer every year of my youth. The Wish Book was so thick it could double as a book end and so heavy you could use it as a door stop. In its ...

Reading commentary about the recent elections, I thought of an observation of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." That is, we must always be disciplined in looking at ...

Homeowners vote red. Renters vote blue. Will President Donald Trump's 50-year mortgage make a red voter out of you? That is what the president hoped on Saturday, when he posted the idea of stretching out the customary 30-year repayment terms for home mortgages to 50 years. Turns out, that ...

"America will never be a socialist country!" says President Donald Trump. I hope not. Trump rightly declared socialism "the wrecker of nations and destroyer of societies." But I fear he's confused about what socialism is. "Trump says he's against socialism, but he is having the government ...

Now what? The on again/off again SNAP food assistance program has been ping-ponging the 1.4 million hungry recipients in the state back and forth for weeks and with the Supreme's slapping a hold on the distribution on some of the funds, the question is now what? The director of the ...

Americans are going to get a little healthier. President Trump cut deals with the drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to increase access to obesity drugs in a major benefit to American public health. The agreements are a win-win-win -- good for consumers, good for the companies and good ...