Smoke still rose from the ruins of the World Trade Center, and the smell of nearly 2,000 deaths lingered miles uptown. A reporter asked New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani whether he worried that the city's Muslim neighborhoods would be attacked in revenge for that Islamist-inspired atrocity. ...
"True is it that we have seen better days." -- William Shakespeare Pearl Harbor brought out the best in the American people. We responded by pulling together for a major mobilization when an act of war landed on our soil in 1941. That December day, which Franklin Roosevelt eloquently ...
Coming home from the emergency room, with my knee swelled up like a basketball, felt like aging 10 years overnight. I could hardly walk, and the steps I managed to make with the injured stiff leg, like Chester on Gunsmoke, made me feel like an old man. I'm 78 going on 90. Fortunately I had my deceased brother's cane to use, but it is hardly adequate. I should be using his walker, the green tennis ball covers on the feet reminding me of slippers and the slippery fall I took. I noticed a huge old-man liver spot on the back of my hand where I had evidently smacked it going down. Ugh. People ...
September is Life Insurance Awareness Month — a great time to review your family’s financial safety net. According to LifeHappens.org, 41% of adults say they know little to nothing about life insurance, and over 100 million Americans either lack coverage or need more. At its core, life insurance pays a tax-free benefit to your beneficiaries after you pass away. It covers immediate expenses like funeral costs and medical bills, helps pay off ongoing obligations like a mortgage or tuition, and helps preserve generational wealth. Coverage is essential for both working and ...
It's one thing for Trump to usurp powers that belong to Congress -- quite another for him to usurp places that belong to all of us. I'm talking about his renaming and demolishing what we share in common. Trump said he "decided" to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America because he was ...
American manufacturing is on the rebound, and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as Republicans gird themselves for the midterm elections just two months from now. Not that manufacturing is the only sector that's on a hiring spree -- businesses ...
