While I applaud the intent of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s effort to “grade” the 50 states in the U.S. on their mental health care, the problem with such reports is that they are out-of-date and virtually useless from the moment they are published. The problem with the...

Revisiting Barack Obama’s education speech, this bit near the beginning touched on some interesting themes: I know there are some who believe we can only handle one challenge at a time. They forget that Lincoln helped lay down the transcontinental railroad, passed the Homestead Act, and create...

Here’s some Gallup findings that are fun to think about: Young people, like people who know what they’re talking about, rate Lincoln as Top President. Middle-aged people, meanwhile, are hard-core rightwingers—they put Reagan at the top and have an unusual aversion to FDR. Old people, b...

. US "ADVISORS" "TRAINING" PAKISTANI TROOPS US "ADVISORS" "TRAINED" SOUTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS, IN THE BEGINNING YOUTUBE: CBS: THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR [1968] "Pete Seeger: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" Pete tried to warn us. Before You Knew It, We Were Ass-Deep In The Big Muddy. And The Big Fo...

Filed under: Business, Airports, Consumer Activism The members of social network Where Are you Now? have spoken! Heathrow is the worst airport in the world, according to voters, thanks to passport control lines and baggage problems. The Brits don't get all the glory, though. JFK in New York and Los ...

JFK is definitely one of his predecessors that President Obama is often compared to. He’s also one whom he turns to for inspiration (as with this recent quote in his most recent weekly address/”fireside chat” to the nation on YouTube) This morning, I’m reminded of words President...

What's the safest/best way to book airline tickets? Hey… I'm planning on flying from New York to Melbourne. I don't have a credit card. What is the best way to make sure my trip is hassle-free? I've flown many times in the past and have never had a problem with lost baggage. But I figure I'll get ...

As good as Obama's speech was at the Lincoln Memorial Concert for him this afternoon, for once it was perhaps not the most inspiring part of the event. Here are some contenders - .Pete Seeger, 89, leading a performance of "This Land is Your Land," belted out by his grandson Tao (powerful voice, soun...

In this season of hope and frigid fear, the other day on the Hudson River we saw another reason for optimism. When faced with imminent danger, we saw the best in what we all can do together. A jetliner is in trouble and the pilot skillfully steers away from the most populated strip of land in Americ...

The recent donnybrooks at the Crowne Plaza JFK make Fawlty Towers look like a model for hotel management. Not only has the hotel operator been treating his employees like dirt—the staff members, which once numbered 70, have not gotten regular paychecks since October; not only has the State Departm...