EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from: "Comical Sense: A Lone Humorist Takes on a World Gone Nutty!" by Tom Purcell. This column was first published in 2006. Ah, St. Patrick's Day is upon us. That means but one thing: time for Ameri ...
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By JAN TING The so-called comprehensive immigration reform proposed by a group of Senators and President Obama amounts to immediate amnesty for millions of immigration law violators, the lifting of limits on future immigration, with some window ...
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Last week, Best Buy joined Yahoo to ban employees from telecommuting -- a subject on which I am becoming an expert. As a self-employed writer, I telecommute every day. Thanks to the Internet and my cell phone, I can work for clients from anywhere ...
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If you're a leftist pausing to honor your memory of Hugo Chavez, maybe you forgot this peace-loving "man of the people" came to power after two military coups that left over 300 people dead. He changed the constitution, eliminating the sena ...
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The Broadway musical "Annie" is enjoying another revival on Broadway. The show opened during the Carter administration when America was in need of some optimism. "The sun'll come out tomorrow," sang Annie, and with the election of Ronald Reagan in 19 ...
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In the only vice-presidential debate of 2012, Republican Paul Ryan and Democrat Joe Biden came out swinging, pleasing both their bases. The narrow edge goes to Biden, who returned momentum to Democrats smarting from President Barack Obama's lackluste ...
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By GINA BARRECA The Hartford Courant You'd think that being a gorgeous, charming, sophisticated young princess fully accessorized right down to having an adoring, healthy and attentive young king-to-be at one's side would have solved most pro ...
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Satwant Singh Kaleka. Paramjit Kaur. Brian Murphy. Sita Singh. Prakash Singh. Punjab Singh. Ranjit Singh. Santokh Singh. Suveg Singh Remember these people -- victims of a killer who attacked the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek on Sunday morni ...
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By LOIS BANNER Los Angeles Times Why is Marilyn Monroe still an American icon 50 years after her death? She is endlessly analyzed in films and biographies; her image appears on T-shirts and posters; her popularity is reflected in the 52,000 Ma ...
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Here's how the irreverent Internet site fark.com summed up Tuesday's decision by the Boy Scouts to continue to treat gay kids and adults like second-class citizens: "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheer ...
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The Associated Press Saturday, July 14, is the 196th day of 2012. Sunday, July 15, is the 197th day, leaving 169 days in the year. This weekend: In 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias "Billy the Kid," was shot and killed by Sheriff Pa ...
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With a historic and just decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, the nation Thursday moved a giant step closer to a health-care system that will work for all Americans. By ruling the individual insurance mandate constitutional under the taxing author ...
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By DENNIS MCDOUGAL Los Angeles Times Rodney King used to tell a harrowing story about growing up in Altadena, Calif., where he and his three brothers rode their bicycles through the vacant hills behind the nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory on ...
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By LYNNE K. VARNER The Seattle Times As my stepfather neared the end of his long battle with pancreatic cancer, his 10 children flocked to his side. As people expressed sympathy about our dying father, I always felt compelled to correct them: ...
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By MARC F. BERNSTEIN Newsday It's time for the next big thing in education, a true revolution in our approach to high school teaching and learning. The vision comes courtesy of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...
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The Associated Press Saturday, June 2, is the 154th day of 2012. Sunday, June 3, is the 155th day, leaving 211 days in the year. Saturday's Highlight: On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the ...
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By G. EDWARD WHITE The Free Lance-Star On Dec. 27, 1895, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., then in his 15th year as an associate justice on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, encountered Edward Atkinson, a wealthy Boston entrepreneur who h ...
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By BRUCE ACKERMAN Los Angeles Times Is citizenship a commodity, to be bought and sold when the price is right? Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, thinks so. After becoming an American 14 years ago, he has traded his citizenship in the ...
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By LANE FILLER Newsday Years before Maurice Sendak ever wrote or illustrated his first book, the British wit G.K. Chesterton explained why Sendak's approach to creating stories for children was so right, and why the parents who feared and fou ...
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The Associated Press Saturday, April 28, is the 119th day of 2012. Sunday, April 29, is the 120th day, leaving 246 days in the year. Saturday's Highlight: On April 28, 1789, there was a mutiny on the Bounty as rebelling crew members of the Brit ...
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By MICHAEL SMERCONISH The Philadelphia Inquirer I can easily see Chris Christie as the 2016 Republican nominee. Here's how I get there: Rick Santorum. Marco Rubio. Paul Ryan. John Thune. Maybe Sarah Palin. They're the "usual suspects" for 2 ...
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The Associated Press Saturday, April 14, is the 105th day of 2012. Sunday, April 15, is the 106th day, leaving 260 days in the year. Saturday's Highlight: On April 14, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the Nort ...
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By JONATHAN TURLEY Los Angeles Times In February, a Philadelphia high school teacher was suspended because of a posting to her blog in which she complained that her students sometimes acted like "rude, disengaged, lazy whiners." In May, a Flo ...
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By TIM WINTER Los Angeles Times The news media has been abuzz recently about the Motion Picture Association of America's decision to adopt an R rating for the film documentary "Bully," and understandably so. School bullying has reached epidem ...
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By SARA BARBOUR Los Angeles Times It was the week before my 23rd birthday when it hit me. "You know," I said casually to my mom as we drove into town to get pedicures, "I don't think I've hung out with anyone my age in over a month." It was ...
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