At the beginning of this year, payroll tax cuts were allowed to expire by Congress. Many people believe this would only affect those earning upwards of $250,000 a year. Well, they were wrong. According to a report from the Tax Policy Center, almost 90...
Want a pet? Adopt. It might be tempting to go straight to a pet store and find the prettiest kitty, but consider adopting pets from an animal shelter. As we see in commercials for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and...
It may be cold and flu season, but more than fevers are rising. Tempers flare as hospitals are cracking down on the percentage of employees who are vaccinated from the flu virus, and some are starting to mandate the vaccine. Some hospitals, like those...
Days before the new year, USA Today writer Sharon Jayson dubbed 2012 as the “Year of the Cheater.” Among the participants of this allegation were David Petraeus’ love affair, the Goldman Sachs investment scam and of course the recently uncovered...
I’m not necessarily in support of abortions. As with any issue, it’s hard to choose between two absolutes of pro-life and pro-choice. But if you forced me to hop to one side of the fence, I’d say pro-life so people would stop tugging at each of...
Roe v. Wade did more than legalize abortion: It put one life above another. On the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the abortion debate is still alive, albeit it is not as fiery as it once was. The famous case concluded that a woman’s right to privacy...
Imagine there was a food so nutritious, so vitalizing and so incredibly freaking old that it is responsible for producing much of the oxygen necessary to develop life on our wonderfully blue and green planet. What if I told you this organic superfood...
Sometimes looks aren’t everything. Allyn Rose isn’t the typical woman. Aside from holding a B.A. in government and politics from the University of Maryland, being a four-sport All-Conference player and a champion a competitive ice skating, she was...
It’s everywhere! There is an insane push for technology, including increased use of smartphones, tablets, mini tablets, ultra-super-uber-duper mini tablets and whatever other devices hit the market. Yes, we are in a world where fast, small and virtual...
As they say, outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns. Following the Newtown, Conn. shooting, the gun control debate has become more heated than ever. While everyone wants to prevent tragedies like that at Sandy Hook Elementary School, no one can really...
Whether you are cheap, lazy, concerned about plastic bottles polluting the Earth or the chemicals that societal norms urge you to slather on yourself, there is a solution for you. I’m talking about the “no poo movement,” and no, it is not about...
Often I write columns about world issues, politics or something else that you might hear about on CNN. While these issues are important, they are very big. What I mean by this is that unless you are a U.S. senator or a CEO of a large corporation, there...
