President Obama has kicked off his second term with a bang, beginning with the highly inspirational Second Inaugural Address. He took the gloves off with that speech, announcing to the world that

Attending the non-military of the two official Presidential Inaugural Balls at the massive Washington Convention Center Monday night, along with about 25,000 others I suspect, being with my male

The headline stories of the week, the president’s new initiatives on gun control, the NRA’s staunch opposition to them, and discredited cyclist Lance Armstrong’s confessions, are

A small business owner friend of mine was greeted by a letter this week from a mega-bank creditor demanding full payment of a loan within one month despite the fact that he’s never missed or been

It is time-worn, but very true, that you cannot know who your friends really are until a crisis hits and people are challenged with having to set aside their own issues for awhile to put their

Usually, social revolutions are not that self-evident in their infancies and often never really get off the ground. But in the spirit of the optimism we’re all supposed to adopt in the holiday