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(02/13/18 11:00am)
The end of trading Friday marked two weeks of declines for all the major stock market indexes since closing at record highs Jan. 26. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 entered correction mode late last week, falling 10 percent. This makes it one of the most volatile weeks since the recession.
(02/06/18 4:00pm)
Last week’s release of the Nunes Memo by President Donald Trump refocused our attention on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, yet again.
(01/29/18 5:00pm)
Nearly 80 percent of millennials aren’t investing, according to a 2016 Harris poll. But refusing to take your place on Wall Street means missed opportunities to improve your financial picture significantly over the long-run.
(01/16/18 10:00pm)
(07/24/17 2:37pm)
In the eight years since the last federal minimum wage increase, liberals and conservatives have shouted at each other from across the aisle, or across the dinner table, over whether the current rate of pay is appropriate.
(07/17/17 1:19am)
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), a man seemingly more bent on being a sensationalizing showman than an intelligent policymaker, unveiled a belligerently heinous plan for funding President Donald Trump’s border wall last Thursday in a televised CNN interview.
(07/10/17 2:15am)
The United States is always talking about abortion.
(07/03/17 12:24pm)
The Congressional Budget Office reported last week that the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate Republican health care bill, will slash Medicaid by $772 billion over the next decade if passed, according to the New York Times.
(06/26/17 1:38am)
At a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last Wednesday, President Donald Trump defended the exuberant amount of wealth held by members of his Cabinet, the richest administration in history, by claiming they had to “give up a lot to takes these jobs,” according to CNN.
(06/22/17 12:20am)
I’ve spent three columns briefly discussing God’s omnipotence and benevolence, the existence of pain in our universe, and the resulting consequences. The power to eradicate pain, however, isn’t exclusive to an all-powerful god.
(06/19/17 1:03pm)
For the last two weeks, I’ve examined the proposition that God cannot be both benevolent and omnipotent because pain exists.
(06/11/17 7:31pm)
That an all-loving, all-powerful god would allow pain and suffering to exist in the Universe it created sounds, at first, like a logical fallacy. Upon closer inspection, however, I find the opposite to be more fallacious.
(06/04/17 8:02pm)
God cannot be both omnipotent and benevolent. If evil exists, an all-loving God cannot.
(06/01/17 12:15am)
During her testimony on Capitol Hill last Wednesday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was grilled by Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) over voucher programs, federal funding and discrimination.
(05/21/17 11:28pm)
Two weeks ago, Emmanuel Macron won a decisive victory over Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential election. With more than 20 million votes, he captured 66.1 percent of the electorate, nearly doubling that of his opponent.
(11/14/16 11:25pm)
Now that Donald Trump won the presidential election without the popular vote, conservatives are scrambling to defend the necessity of the Electoral College.
(11/08/16 12:26am)
I did not cast a vote for president of the United States.
(10/31/16 10:36pm)
It should come as little surprise to most political observers that I predict Hillary Clinton will win next Tuesday’s election.
(10/18/16 2:36am)
Regular readers of my column know I can be a harsh critic of religious people, especially of those who use their religion to oppress or discriminate against others.
(10/10/16 10:53pm)
Sitting down to write this column, I was at a complete and utter loss for words.