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Trust this: There's no cure for colic other than time

If you're worried that no mysteries remain in the world, that humans have climbed every mountain, mastered every technology and solved every riddle, fear not. There's always colic. The topic of colic came up the other day, when I learned that my husband had completely forgotten that our ...

Why the death penalty can be pro-life

The value of something is reflected by the punishment given for destroying it. Two very different death penalty cases have been in the news recently. Each raises a different objection to capital punishment. At the end of last month, Tennessee officials gave Christa Pike what was supposed to ...

The perils of believing the pollsters every October

Everyone absorbing the elitist media spin on the midterm elections cannot avoid the swirling symphony of doom for the Republicans. Conventional wisdom suggests a good night for Democrats, and that's before you look at the president's dreadful approval rating. Polls can be tricky: one can ...

I would support an arranged marriage for myself

AUTHOR’S NOTE: If you read the front page today, you probably read my “online dating” story. I thought it would be nice to give you all an update on my own dating journey, because I’m sure you are all DYING to know what I’ve been up to. Two years ago I set upon a voyage to develop ...

Trump's final humiliation of Lindsey Graham

Dear Lindsey, Your body had not long been in the grave when your pal Donald Trump made the anti-Russia legislation that carried your name a nullity. Wondering how you'd feel about this if you were around to see it. The whole point of your last decade of life was the belief (or was it a ...

Don't base your vote on candidate ads

Did you watch any of the debates this past week? Most folks probably did not even though it was a rare opportunity to evaluate the candidates based on something other than those often misleading campaign commercials. In fact some valuable advice is, if you base your election decisions based ...