Before “Big Brother” became a popular CBS reality series, the entity was best known as a character in the novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell. In this acclaimed work of literature, “Big Brother” is the dictator of a totalitarian state known as Oceania in...

During the same week that Angelina Jolie announced that she had a preventive double mastectomy as a precaution against her genetic predisposition toward breast cancer, House Republicans voted for the 37th time to repeal or replace Obamacare.These two events have more in common than you think.That&rs...

It hasn’t been a great week for the Obama folks, as the scandal du jour tour has firmly taken hold. Every day it seems another federal agency is exposed as having intimidated, snooped, covered up or gone to Vegas on the taxpayer dime. Zimbabwe is even making fun of us.On Jan. 21, 2009, in rema...

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Truth be told, I don’t know exactly how many channels I get on our satellite system at my house. But I do know the number lies somewhere between “a lot” and “far too many” for the amount of television I actually watch.And that’s always bugged me. I don’t nee...

“May God give you...For every storm a rainbow, for every tear a smile, for every care a promise and a blessing in each trial.” (Irish blessing)Life can be cruel sometimes. That’s what I was thinking Thursday night when after many, many faithful weeks of watching American Idol, the...

School officials in Lake City, Arkansas have come up with a novel solution to the fight over prayer at graduation:No prayer, no graduation.On May 6, the school board voted to cancel sixth-grade graduation at Lake City’s two elementary schools. The action came soon after the district received a...

Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History:On May 19, 1943, in his second wartime address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country’s full support in the fight against Japan....