Congress made the right call recently by not including harmful government mandates that affect our pharmacy benefits in the most recent spending package. Anyone who owns their own business can tell you how important it is to offer competitive benefits to keep employees around and incentivize ...
The Utah Legislature has passed an unconscionable law encouraging that the Ten Commandments be studied in public schools. The measure says that the commandments should be added “to a list of historical documents and principles that school curricula and activities may include for a thorough ...
A week ago, while Baltimore slept, the Francis Scott Key Bridge stood, its gorgeous and graceful truss lighting and spanning its busy global port. It is — was — a beloved landmark. When the city woke in the dawn's early light, the bridge was not still there. A massive 21st-century cargo ...
Leaders of both parties agree: We must reduce globalization. "China is ripping us on trade," says Donald Trump. Our trade deficit is "an immorality," says Nancy Pelosi. But it's not. In my new video, Scott Lincicome of the Cato Institute points out, "Selling us stuff is hardly ripping us ...
My daughter decided in the middle of her junior year to switch to choir from percussion. She had never taken a choir class, so this was something new. She had to move her schedule around to make it possible and, to be honest, I was thinking that perhaps she’d rather have a study hall, but she ...
In the summer of 1997, the Republican-controlled Senate Governmental Affairs Committee was investigating whether the Clinton-Gore White House and the Democratic National Committee had engaged in improper, or even illegal, fundraising practices during President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection ...
I surely couldn't foresee myself writing another letter to the editor after all these years, but I just can't restrain myself. There are so many remarkable issues that one letter could never suffice. I will address a few that cause me the most distress: Politics #1: Donald Trump A ...
Woke is an adjective derived from African-American vernacular, meaning alert to racial prejudice and discrimination. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, woke means to be aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice). In ...
We Americans with kidney failure must accept the fact that we will be in medical debt for the rest of our lives. To pay for dialysis treatment, some patients keep working and use private insurance. Others live in states that supplement the other 20%. For me, although I have my husband’s ...
I visited with a friend the other day who apologetically told me he isn’t a very good writer. People do that to me — apologize that they’re not a very good writer, as though all of us are supposed to be. If it’s any consolation, I’m not a very good mathematician. Numbers drive me up ...
