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Guest AuthorJune 17, 2014

It seems that teenagers are not being as bad as they used to be. A new study of 13, 000 American teenagers by the Center for Disease Control has found that our nation’s youth are drinking and smoking less than previous years. According to the study, 35 percent of youth surveyed stated that they had […]

Guest AuthorJune 3, 2014

Last week, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki took the public-relations bullet for President Obama in an attempt to ease the damage of the growing VA scandal. VA officials have routinely hid months-long wait times that veterans faced when seeking care at VA facilities across the nation. Shinseki ended his five-year stint at the VA and […]

Guest AuthorMay 27, 2014

Another Memorial Day has passed. It’s supposed to be a solemn occasion to honor our military men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice while in service to this nation. This year, as America remains entangled in the endless “war on terror,” some of us took time out of our weekend to thank a growing […]

Guest AuthorMay 20, 2014

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” — Albert Schweitzer Friendship has changed in our social-media age. We used to maintain long-distance friendships with letters […]

Guest AuthorMay 6, 2014

The moral issues surrounding death-penalty methodology that were portrayed so well in Stephen King’s “The Green Mile” were revisited by Americans last week after Oklahoma authorities miserably failed to execute a killer by injection. In what was termed a “botched” procedure, Clayton Lockett was pumped full of “experimental” drugs, a concoction of sedatives that failed […]

Guest AuthorApril 29, 2014

Earlier this month, yet another disturbed student rampaged through a school, stabbing 20 students and a security guard with a pair of knives. Alex Hribal, a junior at Franklin Regional High School near Pittsburgh, walked into the school at the beginning of the school day and slashed and stabbed his way through the school’s packed […]

Guest AuthorApril 22, 2014

After Obamacare’s very rocky implementation, there are more and more Americans signing up for health insurance. President Obama recently announced that many more people signed up on Obamacare exchanges than expected — over 9 million Americans to be exact. That confirmed a Gallup Poll that found that close to 10 million people signed up for […]

Guest AuthorApril 9, 2014

In the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, Florida legislators recently sent Gov. Rick Scott new legislation that will allow a gun owner to fire warning shots during a similar altercation. The Legislature passed a “warning shot” bill and Scott will probably sign it into law. It allows a person without a criminal record to […]

Guest AuthorApril 1, 2014

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule soon in a case that will determine whether prayers at government meetings should continue to be allowed and if so, what kind. The court will rule on whether an upstate New York town violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from making […]

Guest AuthorMarch 23, 2014

If you are a legislator in the South and want to prove your mettle during a legislative session, either address abortion or marriage. Both are great fodder for provoking headlines. Last week, Rep. Cynthia Stafford, D-Miami, got titillating headlines by proposing a law that would ban youths under age 16 from getting married. According to […]

Tag: Steve Kurlander

Steve Kurlander: Government has Walmart clerks enforcing good behavior

Steve Kurlander: VA’s problems will spread to the entire health-care system

Steve Kurlander: Obama’s “responsible end of war” has Orwellian ring

Steve Kurlander: Artie Lee: A social-media friend that I regret I never met

Steve Kurlander: Crime and true punishment: A botched execution or real justice?

Steve Kurlander: School violence: More social workers needed, not cops or guns

Steve Kurlander: There are hidden costs even if you have health coverage

Steve Kurlander: Time to eliminate, not expand ‘stand your ground’ defense

Steve Kurlander: Overt Christian prayers have no place at government meetings

Steve Kurlander: There’s no need to ban marriage for youths under age 16