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Boy Scouts should embrace all Americans
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Believing scouting to be a good experience that all boys should have the opportunity to participate in, I found the Boy Scouts of America’s policy of discrimination just plain wrong.
From Newtown to Texas, Obama becomes consoler in chief
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Presidents are judged in history almost as much by how they made a country feel about itself as what they accomplished.
Government can’t spend beyond means to boost economic growth
Sunday, April 14, 2013
The truth is we can’t tax our way out of our fiscal mess.
GPI is better way to monitor economy, warn of meltdowns
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Why should we make these changes and rely more on the GPI in the future? Well, to put it simply, standard economic growth indicators aren’t yielding enough information.
Ending so-called ‘mortgage kickbacks’ won’t help borrowers
Sunday, April 14, 2013
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is right that mortgage reinsurance arrangements are really kickbacks for the referral of business, but it is wrong in suggesting that eliminating them will reduce costs to borrowers. In my view, it is just as likely, perhaps more likely, that the cost to borrowers will increase.
Inspirational teachers at SCCC paved way to successful education
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Since SCCC, I have earned undergraduate and graduate degrees and a university certificate of advanced study. But it was the small two-year school on the banks of the Mohawk that provided not only the strong foundation, but the impetus, the craving, the drive to further my studies.
Feds need money to rehire workers
Sunday, April 14, 2013
America’s economy is poised to roar ahead if only Washington would stop holding it back.
U.S. can find way to defuse Korean situation
Sunday, April 14, 2013
North Korea is a despicable tyranny but who will bell this cat? Who in the United Nations, United States, Europe or Asia wants to drive into North Korea and insist that Kim Jong Un and his military leaders stop ruling over millions of its citizens as tyrants?
If women wrote The Commandments, one might be ‘Don’t be so hard on thyself’
Sunday, April 14, 2013
While it’s been lovely listening to the patriarchs from the Pentateuch lay down the law for the last several thousand years, it’s time to imagine what the Old Testament matriarchs might have said.
Texting disrupts our conversation, but we are still figuring out the new rules
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Texting is one of those habits that came so quickly to our society that everything from schools to hospitals to state capitals — institutions that say things in full sentences and without emoticons — are scrambling to impose rules of the road, literally and figuratively.
Loss of GOP support could hamper Cuomo’s future efforts
Sunday, March 31, 2013
If the right is now done with him, Cuomo may have to go to Plan B: Act like a Democrat.
Questionable ethics, integrity true price of ‘free’ journalism
Sunday, March 31, 2013
People who make their living by writing for publication had good reason to follow the recent hoo-hah over publishers who think paying writers for their work is optional.
Don’t stretch intent of 14th Amendment; let the states decide
Sunday, March 31, 2013
In the case of Hollingsworth vs. Perry, argued Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to declare same-sex marriage a right in all 50 states. It should not.
Longer day in class, true school ‘year’ are keys to improvement, curbing brain-drain
Sunday, March 31, 2013
There are many factors that challenge the core task of improving and maximizing school performance. Fortunately, there is no shortage of “good” ideas to address these and other challenges; but there also is no panacea.
Movement poses challenge for those of traditional faiths
Sunday, March 31, 2013
With the issue of same-sex marriage argued before the Supreme Court and raging elsewhere in America, a question: Is it possible to be a traditional Christian or Muslim or Orthodox Jew — and hold to one’s faith on what constitutes marriage — and not be considered a bigot?
