Karen Sue Smith

In his speech after the tragic shooting of 19 people in Tucson President Obama brought great consolation to the American people He explained his presence in humble terms ldquo as an American rdquo come to mourn with all those present But he played another very significant role however The p

As the baby boom generation retires and worries about the viability of Social Security worsen the U S federal government is keeping an eye on the number of young people defined as those under age 20 The latest government estimate for the last decade shows that the number of U S young people wou

Two significant moves have just been made on Thursday during the Lame Duck session of Congress First the House passed the Child Nutrition Bill which expands the school lunch program and will automatically include more children on Medicaid The program currently feeds more than 31 million youngs

ldquo Inside Job rdquo is a documentary film about the economic meltdown of 2008 Its main point is that the resulting Great Recession was nbsp avoidable In fact no one listened to the few people who predicted the problems well in advance or acted on the implications of their predictions At le

Polling of all sorts always contains a margin of error usually about 3 percent though it pays to check each poll Of course some pollsters can at times be just plain wrong or worse even biased This should make readers wary of their predictions Since some online comments in response to more th

One needn rsquo t be interested in painting mining or things British to enjoy ldquo The Pitmen Painters rdquo an often funny and at times ferociously affecting new play on Broadway at the Samuel J Friedman Theater The play was written by Lee Hall whose screenplay and book for ldquo Billy El