Gerald D. Skoning
As I perused lengthy excerpts from Peter Schweizer’s blockbuster new book Clinton Cash, I was suddenly having flashbacks to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash hit musical Evita. The musical’s attack on the Eva Peron Foundation (yes, there really was such a…
Federal health officials have proclaimed a “red alert” national health crisis. We are too fat. Our diets are unhealthy. We overdose on fatty fast food. We are a nation plagued by obesity. A number of solutions to our overweight crisis…
It’s everywhere. The legalese. The lawyers’ gobbledygook. The hocus‑pocus and mumbo‑jumbo from a generation dominated by the legal profession. It’s the fallout from our litigious society. The warning labels and messages are everywhere: on ladders, cigarettes, and lawnmowers, on prescription…
When news broke last month on the Department of Justice’s plans to indict Sen. Robert Menendez on criminal corruption charges, the New Jersey Democrat signaled he would fight. “I’m not going anywhere,” he said. Easy for him to say. He…
The United States and Iran have plunged back into negotiations, hoping to end once and for all a decades-long standoff that has raised the specter of an Iranian nuclear arsenal, a new atomic arms race in the Middle East and…
We are entering that anxious time of year once again for high school seniors who are college applicants: the announcement of admissions decisions. Will it be the fat envelope (packed with details on admission to their #1 choice, “Welcome to…
Astronomers at Peking University recently announce the discovery of a monster black hole they say is 12 billion times the size of our own sun. To give a better sense of its enormous size, the sun is 1.3 million times…
War is hell. We see gruesome killings on the battlefields as a tragic result of combat. We have become sadly accustomed, even jaded, to reports of the numbers of troops and innocent civilians killed in action. Some are blown to…
With colleges under growing pressure from the federal government under Title IX to reduce binge drinking and alcohol-related student misbehavior, Dartmouth College recently announced that it would ban hard liquor on campus. The sexual assaults, fraternity hazing, and hospitalizations that have rocked…
Distillers of alcoholic beverages may include “nutrition data” labels on liquor bottles in the near future. Sometime soon all liquor bottles will likely show the number of calories and carbohydrates in each “serving.” Some commentators predict that at long last…
