Commentary & Opinion

Stephen Gottlieb: The Earth Has Its Own Ways Of Cooling Down

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:49:02 +0000

Let me begin by congratulating the station on a successful fund drive. These guys are terrific, the work they do is important.

Paul Elisha: In The Ongoing American Saga, We All Have A Part To Play!

Paul Elisha — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:50:00 +0000

Back around 1934 or 1935, when this ancient veteran was in his early teens, my perennial friend and I would saunter the streets of our neighborhood, chanting the latest in ‘smart-aleck’ sayings: “I’m a peaceful guy and I’ll kill the first person who doesn’t believe me!”

Blair Horner: A Big Gift For Big Tobacco?

Patrick Donges — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:30:00 +0000

This week is the scheduled end of the legislative session. Often the end of session is a time when special interest legislation surfaces – it looks like this year is no exception.

Lawmakers are considering legislation that would give a gift to the tobacco industry. Under the proposal, tobacco companies – and only tobacco companies, no other types of businesses – would not have to post a bond that is the equivalent of the judgment against them in court.

Rob Edelman: No “Fun” Here

Rob Edelman — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:45:00 +0000

I have in my hands a DVD of FUN SIZE, a PG-13-rated comedy aimed at the younger demographic that is presented by Nickelodeon Movies, an offshoot of the Nickelodeon cable television network, which produces programming for a teen and pre-teen audience.

Andrew Coates: Celebrating Our Nurse Colleagues

Andrew Coates — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:50:00 +0000

I practice hospital medicine.

Recently the nurses at our hospital voted to give me an award. They told me about it, discreetly, one by one, ahead of the official notice from the administration. These caregiving colleagues, upon whom our patients in the hospital depend every day, took the time to let me know that they also depend upon me. Wow. A true honor.

Richard Iannuzzi: If You Can’t Lend A Hand…

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:50:12 +0000

I've heard it said that if a single person raises an issue, one should listen politely.

Keith Strudler: Lebron Vs. History

Keith Strudler — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:52:00 +0000

In the period of the next several days, the history of basketball may or may not be rewritten. At stake is far more than the next NBA Title, which will go to either the San Antonio Spurs or the Miami Heat. The Spurs hold a 2-1 game lead in the best of seven series and could potentially defeat the favored Heat team before ever having to return to Miami for Games 6 and 7. Or, Miami could rebound and overwhelm the Spurs with superior talent and up-tempo play, taking their second consecutive title and laying the groundwork as the league’s most current dynasty. With that comes the historical directive of one superstar LeBron James, the most dominant player in the league.

Herbert London: Inventing Rights And The Enforcement Mechanism That Goes Along With Them

Herbert London — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:20:00 +0000

Washington is the home for rights promoters. Fads of the moment translate into rights with legal justification and a regulatory apparatus attached to them. This is the manner in which government expands without limit. Illustrations abound.

Paul Elisha: Beware The American Military Monopoly

Paul Elisha — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:20:00 +0000

As a rising tide of irritation roiled what should have been an energetic second-wind, for gaining new fruit to enrich the electoral edge that OBamians have been thirsting for, this aging veteran was stunned to hear but a single voice raised to protest the temerity of military mischief-in-the-making… and that voice of a Republican rebel, at that. To this ‘pro forma’ civil libertarian, we seem to be on the razor’s edge of a power move, by certain commanders of our various armed forces, toward an American ‘military monopoly.’

Rob Edelman: Inspiration

Rob Edelman — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:20:00 +0000

Most movies come and go. They open theatrically, earn their box office bucks and, these days, end up in DVD obscurity. Few are truly memorable. Few are, to quote Humphrey Bogart in THE MALTESE FALCON, “the stuff that dreams are made of.”