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Reading about West Virginia University’s plan to solve a budgetary shortfall by eliminating the study of foreign languages, it occurred to me that the entire purpose of a college education

Sometimes pictures do tell the story. When Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders staged a photo op for the signing of her vaunted LEARNS Act, an education “reform” shoved through a

Sometimes pictures do tell the story. When Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders staged a photo op for the signing of her vaunted LEARNS Act, an education "reform" shoved through a

The City Council voted 4-2 Monday night in preliminary support of implementing rules that would prevent people from mooring boats or floats in local lakes and leaving them there for extended periods of time.

Here’s the thing about Donald Trump: He’s not a real mobster, just a mouthy blowhard who plays one on TV.

Here’s the thing about Donald Trump: He’s not a real mobster, just a mouthy blowhard who plays one on TV. A trust-fund preppie surrounded by bodyguards all his life —

One time I started to write a book I called “Animal Passion,” a history of my marriage in pets. The first chapter, about an extraordinary collie/German shepherd mix we’d adopted

Did you know that Joe Biden has offshore bank accounts? And that Joe Biden has a Delaware mansion? And that Joe Biden has a Delaware mansion on the beach? And that Joe Biden has set up LLC corporations for all of his grandchildren (except for the one he ignores in Arkansas)? All on the salary […]

If the self-styled Republican “Freedom Caucus” understood the first thing about the United States Constitution they profess to revere, they’d recognize that it’s a conservative document purposely crafted to frustrate radicals like them. As men of the 18th century, the Founding Fathers were deeply suspicious of what they called “enthusiasm,” most commonly defined as God-intoxicated certitude.…

For all the hubbub about Jason Aldeans "Try That in a Small Town," what surprised me is what a terrible country song it is: tuneless, witless and mumbled more than