Charisma makes political rallies great

Prior to the 2008 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, I had attended only one polit­i­cal rally. That rally took place dur­ing the fall of 1968 when Minnesota’s Demo­c­ra­tic Sen­a­tor Hubert Humphrey, run­ning against Repub­li­can Richard Nixon, spoke at a…

Seculars know good, evil, too

I was dis­ap­pointed to read syn­di­cated colum­nist Cal Thomas’s attack on not only the late Christo­pher Hitchens, but also on non-theists in general. While Thomas acknowl­edges that Hitchens was smart and witty, he seems to take…

Hearty soup brings back warm memories

Can you believe it? It’s 2012 and I hope things will be bet­ter for all of us. We’re lucky so far that we haven’t had lots of snow. My sis­ter Bon­nie, who lives in Indi­ana, says…

It's never too late for baseball

I love base­ball. I wish I had loved it earlier. Actu­ally, I didn’t know I loved it until I moved to Philadel­phia back in the sev­en­ties. Hav­ing grown up in the Cleve­land area there was never…

Winter is all about the flu

Board cer­ti­fied in Inter­nal Med­i­cine, Dr. Saima Iqbal is ded­i­cated to pro­vid­ing indi­vid­u­al­ized patient care to opti­mize health main­te­nance and dis­ease pre­ven­tion. She believes in being a patient advo­cate and an inte­gral part of the community.…

Fran Blank is a gar­dener who lives in Brighton Town­ship who occa­sion­ally sub­mits columns.…