The Ebola virus is the best thing to happen to American politicians in years. Ebola has done what neither war, climate change, nor economic meltdown have accomplished. It has united our politicians in action because Ebola is bad. Ebola threatens …

  It seems as if everyone is stoned these days, including the editorial board of the New York Times.   The Times called for ending the federal ban on marijuana, saying that the costs of law enforcement and slamming Americans …

Anyone who has ever been in a Major League Baseball dugout five minutes after the game wouldn’t snicker about whether soccer is a real sport. At the end of a baseball game the dugout floor is spotted with more spit …

  For a while when I played in a men’s hockey league in Los Angeles one of our regular opponents was an all-gay team called the Blades. That’s right, they were the gay Blades.   One night we played in …

Climbing Mt. Everest is no longer a noble pursuit and the people who do it are not heroes. Everest has become a magnet not for the best among us expanding boundaries of the known world, but for the worst, the …

In the second season of the Netflix drama “House of Cards” CNN’s breathless anchor Ashley Banfield conducts a dramatized interview with the actress Robin Wright, who plays the fictional wife of a fictional vice-president. At the end of the scene …

As I watched Olympic skier Bode Miller being interviewed by NBC’s Christin Cooper after his record-setting bronze medal, I had one wish for him. I wished that he would grab Cooper and throw her over the fence to a pack …

The first American hero of the 2014 Winter Olympics is the goofy and charming Sage Kotsenburg of Park City, who won the first ever slopestyle snowboarding competition. Slopestyle is acrobatic snowboarding in which riders fly off vertical ramps to reach …

Katie Couric started her new job doing television on the Internet and is now the “Yahoo News Global Anchor.” Katie started out as a spear-carrying reporter, worked her way up to the commanding position of anchor, and has become a …

It’s that time of year when news reporters run to the hardware store to interview the manager about the number of snow shovels he’s sold. Snow shovels are a measurement of severe weather and when the hardware store is sold …