The fanatical anti-Obama faction of the GOP – which is almost the entire Republican Party – is at it again. They voted once more, in the...

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Florida’s Republican Legislature and governor, Rick Scott, are in a pickle. The people whose boneheaded obeisance to an idiotic ideology...

Like a yokel at a party of snobs, the dangling modifier looks so uncomfortable. He’s out of place and doesn’t know how to get the heck...

The White House indicated that President Obama will veto the Keystone XL Pipeline bill passed last week by the House and due for a vote...

Dr. Mehmet Oz The You Docs are at it again. After results of a huge meta-analysis were published in March, Drs. Mehmet Oz and Michael...

It’s become a full-fledged epidemic. Perhaps the best evidence of the deterioration of English language usage in America is the misuse of...

Ex-Senator Barney Frank We just got a preview of what’s going to happen to the country under the new Congress, with both the House and...

Preventive Gerontologist, Dr. Arnold Bretsky, recommends this … That’s the beginning of a sentence from a newspaper advertorial urging...

How are Americans supposed to know what food is healthy if the major medical organizations propagate wrong information? So far, so good...

The Democratic Party lost the 2014 midterm elections last week to the Republicans, and the Miami Dolphins lost its ninth game of the...

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Chris Matthews Less than six weeks before the general election (Nov. 4), American voters would do well to consider a few facts...

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What gives? There is another redundancy that pops up often in the print and broadcast media, in ads, on bloggers’ sites, and in...

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American workers Since 1894, Labor Day has been officially celebrated as a day to honor workers. It’s a time to reflect on the...

President Obama With the primaries over here in Florida, the midterm elections loom a little more than two months away. A poll shows...