Collecting My Thoughts

3884 IRCA to CIRA--from alphabet soup to nuts To get a feel for how we got to the mess we're in with IRCA (1986) and its growing litt...

3883 Sandy vs. Scooter "Why the "unusually harsh sentence," as William Otis, a former federal prosecutor who served on the ...

3882 We're on our way to the Tech reunion. The class meets tonight at a private club, and all the classes get together tomorrow on th...

Thursday Thirteen Resolutions According to Willowcreek's Network , my highest score is in Wisdom, and second highest are Administratio...

3880 The sad record of the Left "There are no megalomaniacal mass-murderer that the Left has not supported, no Democracy that it has ...

Let's move the UN This building is obviously too expensive to repair, so I think it is time to let another country enjoy hosting it. F...

3878 What's uglier than power line towers? Lots of things. Wind farms nuclear power cooling towers solar panels dotting the neighborho...

3877 Reading the want ads in JAMA You might think it's about the work. Not so, if these want ads tell the story. A Columbus, GA posit...

3876 Here's a pup you don't want A few weeks ago I showed a cute puppy that needed a good home. He'd been badly abused. Her...

3875 Remember the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? That was a study that went on about 30 years in the 20th century among poor black men in the s...

3874 More abortion tax dollars wanted by Planned Parenthood Since it started offering abortions in the 1970s, Planned Parenthood has perform...

3873 Populist pandering by politicians promising penalties A reader's comments in USAToday, June 5: "As long as we live in a soci...

Did I ever tell you that it's been 40 years? Yes, we moved to Columbus, Ohio 40 years ago this week. Hardly seems possible. For some...

3871 When guys open up their hearts fall out. Something amazing happened at my daughter's garage sale on Friday. Two different men, ...

3870 Hispanics--the made-for-politics racial category "With the beginning of large-scale non-European immigration in the late 1960s a...

3869 1776, the good, bad, and hopeless I don't particularly like war stories. After all, the U.S. has been at war with some country so...

3868 Call me anything but Muslim terrorist Four people have been charged in the US over a plot to bomb John F Kennedy airport in New York, U...

3867 Great Grandma's sunscreen It was called common sense coverage. Gardeners, golfers, sunbathers and tanning salonistas need to know:...

3866 Climate change map This map, which appeared in JAMA 296:8 and is found on www.sciencesource.com , is supposed to show the possible h...

3865 Are you serving alcohol to underage drinkers? About a month ago there was a big hoop-la in our community because a limousine driver r...