The men and women who fight for our freedom have a thankless battle. During the Vietnam War, it was the people maligning the soldiers who came back home and, instead of thanking them for their service, called them butchers and spit on them. After the terrorist attacks in 2001 took place and we found ourselves…

I never attended my high school prom. It wasn’t a particular rite of passage I was interested in at the time, although maybe my view has evolved over the years.  Of course, if I were in high school today, my own personal interest in the prom would probably take a backseat to another nagging question—Is…

A recent news report revealed that a majority of Americans are not thrilled with the current slate of candidates running for President of the United States. The Associated Press-GfK poll shows that people might vote for a particular candidate, but they’re doing it with two fingers plugging their noses. Donald Trump topped the unpopular column…

It can be tough to be hateful in America. Just ask North Carolina. The state is facing quite the backlash after its governor signed a bill into law that required transgender people to use the restroom designated for the gender put on their birth certificate, not the gender they identify with. The law also prevents…

It’s a sad state of affairs when you find parents acting more childish than the kids. It’s really bad when they do it during a holiday. I was sitting at home on Easter, recovering from a nasty cold, when I came across a story about an Easter egg hunt gone horribly wrong. The Pez candy…

It’s just under eight months until the general presidential election, but it feels like a neverending story—a neverending horror story. Primary elections have been underway since early February, sometimes one state at a time, sometimes multiple states on the same day, engaged in a shell game to win a magic number of delegates. Not many…