The fulminator Mitt Romney Mitt Romney is at it again, condemning the man who bested him in the 2012 presidential election. How nice it...

Give me an and, the grammar cheerleader in me wants to shout. disjointed You’d think people had an allergy to and. These days, this...

Including from, including on, including in, including at … . Enough already. What I wanna know is: including what? Spare the word and...

Writers who get too hyphen happy end up with cluttered copy, despite the apparently skewed vision of some who think they look so dashing....

President Barack Obama President Obama’s approval ratings are way down, significantly less than 50 percent in the polls. The reason,...

“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.” And God was and is everywhere. And so is the word...

“I’m not going to send you for a colonoscopy,” my primary-care doctor said. “We don’t do that anymore for people once they turn 70.” Man...

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing,...

HELP! Spare me from redundant use of the word. Redundancy reigns It is ubiquitous in combination with another verb, when either that verb...

President Obama In 2008 and again in 2012, I voted for Barack Obama for president. His current low approval ratings are due mainly, I...

President Lyndon B. Johnson Ten days ago, the nation observed the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, brought to fruition by...

Do you ever read a newspaper story, an advertisement, an essay or some other piece of literature and feel as though you’re being jerked...

Americans become outraged when they hear about people at the lower end of the economic spectrum receiving government welfare assistance...

Ripened corn The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. Whether or not that’s true, it sure seems to have affected the...

Okay, listen up! Which is it: hark back, harken back, or hearken back? Hark, harken and hearken all mean the same thing: to listen. And...

Ancel Keys on a Time cover in 1950; a 1984 Time issue; the current Time issue Well folks, it’s finally happened. Time magazine, the...

Do people die anymore? I mean, I know our life expectancy is on the rise, but surely the human species has not achieved immortality....

Tranquil — naturally About two years ago, I began seeing a holistically oriented doctor. His practice was based on prevention and...

Critical cholesterol study: no reporting Did you know about the large study in 2011 that showed women with high cholesterol had fewer...

Wheat up!? Eat wheat. That’s the mantra of the medical establishment and conventional nutritionists. Wheat Leading alternative physicians...