Author: Patti Bankson

It started out being, “Anybody but Obama”, then morphed into, “Anybody but Romney”. Actually, that’s where it started, with Romney… whoever started that little slogan, and those who jumped on the “Anybody, but” bandwagon afterward, thought Romney was sure to …

Jennifer Ahlquist is offended. I’m offended. Anyone else offended? Have you filed your lawsuit yet? Me, neither. But, Jennifer Ahlquist has.

Don’t know Jennifer? She’s a student at Cranston High School West, in RI, who sued the city of Cranston, and …

Watching the GOP debates has inspired me… to want to get up on that debate stage and tell the candidates to forget “talking points” and “b.s. rhetoric”… what all politicians need is a true, to-the core, philosophical and spiritual epiphany, …

The last gift has been opened, all the leftovers bagged and tagged, that laaast little scrap of homemade fudge scraped off the plate, and you’ve just come back into the house after sending the “children”, and their children, off with …

Most “role models” = a parent’s worst nightmare. (If not, maybe some restructuring of standards is needed?) Imagine your daughter wanting to grow up to be Lindsay Lohan, or your son wanting to be Charlie Sheen. Yikes! Unfortunately, there’s hardly …

While thinking about what to write this week, I looked over at the bulletin board in my office and saw the Christmas card we got a couple of years ago from one of our daughters and her family… it’s a …

Gone are the days when you could believe the news, as reported, and you could believe the words out of a politician’s mouth. That statement assumes those days actually existed. But looking over my shoulder into the past, I’m not …

Have you heard the latest open mic “Oops!” story? At the recent G20 in France, French President Sarkozy and President Obama were so busy doing some dissing of Israeli PM Netanyahu, they didn’t realize their undiplomatic trash talk would soon …

If there’s one thing that stands out in the Penn State University scandal that broke last week, it’s that it could have been stopped, many times, as far back as 1995, but wasn’t. There were many opportunities missed, by many …

Obama talks about how the rich are Bad. But, obviously, that’s only unless, or until, he needs them. He seems to have no problem being on the receiving end of a $38,800K per person (cozy) dinner at the home of …

I’m sure grain is regularly delivered all over the country without fanfare. But when a train carrying a grain shipment made a delivery in Longview, Washington, on Wednesday, September 7th, it made the news. And the news was that this …

Just last January President Obama called for an end to political finger-pointing, urging Americans not to use the tragic shooting in Arizona to turn on one another. He told people at the University of Arizona, and millions of television viewers, …

Qaddafi’s days are numbered. He’s gone. No, wait, he’s not gone. His son is in custody. No, he’s not in custody. The rebels have taken over Tripoli, but we don’t know for sure who the rebels are, and what kind …

Supposedly when George Washington was a boy, he chopped down a cherry tree, then admitted his guilt to his father, saying, “I cannot tell a lie.” Although it’s possible that story may have some truth to it, it’s pretty …

The “Silver Bullet” failed. After all the tension and bickering, the financial compromise, the bill that Harry Reid said has brought us back from the brink of disaster, isn’t making anybody happy. Including the stock market, which, as of …