Columnists

10 Reasons Trump Wins GOP Nomination

Bob Burnett
Friday September 04, 2015 - 04:14:00 PM

New York real-estate mogul and media personality, Donald Trump, is the odds-on favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination. Here are the top ten reasons why Trump will prevail. -more-


New: ECLECTIC RANT: Credit Card Changes Benefit Consumers

Ralph E. Stone
Sunday September 06, 2015 - 09:07:00 PM

The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD Act) changed how credit card issuers must apply your credit card payments. -more-


ON MENTAL ILLNESS: "Crisis" Often Merely A Perception

Jack Bragen
Friday September 04, 2015 - 11:17:00 AM

When a number of challenges exist at once, it can seem overwhelming, as though the universe wants to do us in. Things can snowball in our thinking to the point where we feel as though we are having a crisis. However, some of the time, not all of the time, the perception of crises is merely a perception. This perception could be reinterpreted and downgraded to the feeling that we are in a "difficult time" that we must just muddle through. -more-


SENIOR POWER: Amend the Constitution?

Helen Rippier Wheeler, pen136@dslextreme.com
Friday September 04, 2015 - 11:20:00 AM

When the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was finally signed, women were provided the right to vote in 1920. It had been introduced 42 years earlier. Sixteen other nations had already guaranteed this right… -more-