MORFORD: A troubling lack of pure evil / Where to find a refreshing dose of...
Remember the good old days? When the air was thick like curdled paste and the days were long like sad, lonely sighs and evil — sweet, dependable evil — was like some sort of predatory perfume salesgirl...
View ArticleHealthy habits may cut price of insurance
Workers who quit smoking, lose weight, and eat right could have their health insurance premiums cut by as much as half, possibly saving them thousands of dollars per year, under a measure inserted with...
View Article$18-A-Pack Cigarettes? Bring ‘Em On
Kings of Leon’s set at Chicago’s Lollapalooza music festival earlier this month was stunning, but standing in the audience, I was most struck by the guy periodically scampering across the stage whose...
View ArticleSidestep ’em if you got ’em
Some tobacco companies have pulled a fast one on the federal government by re-labeling their products and avoiding a punitive tax placed on roll-your-own tobacco products. ... read more >>
View ArticleCigarettes and alcohol and Obama
Doctor tells President Obama to eat “healthy diet”! That was the shocking news to come out of the president’s first medical check-up since he moved into the Oval Office. Except that it wasn’t. Instead,...
View ArticleObama declares ‘major disaster’ in Tenn.
U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday declared a major disaster area in four Tennessee counties devastated by flooding. The declaration requires federal resources to be deployed to Cheatham, Davidson,...
View ArticleObama pardons ex-Marine convicted of cutting pennies in 1963
For 42 years, Ronald Foster didn’t know he had a felony conviction for cutting up pennies. It seemed like a nickel-and-dime crime at the time. President Obama apparently agreed; last week he pardoned...
View ArticleHas Obama kicked smoking habit once and for all?
The President may have kicked his smoking habit once and for all. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says it has been about nine months since the President’s last cigarette. The comment came in...
View ArticleIs it OK to cheer Osama bin Laden’s death?
Jesus said “love your enemies.” If only he had said how we should react when they die at our own hands. After President Obama announced that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been shot dead in...
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