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Canine Companion: Dogs Sometimes Fear Men

Hey, guys, today, we are just going to drive right into a topic — dogs’ fear of men. Have you ever experienced this or are you currently experiencing this issue? Even if you aren’t having this problem now, you may want to clip out this article for future reference. Your dog may be perfectly content and calm without any behavior problems around women and children, but when a man approaches you can see the shutdown begin. Some dogs may try to hide from you (the man), cower or show submissive behavior, shake, or even urinate due to anxiety. Others may show signs of aggression ...

America Is Watching

It is my habit, and my ethical obligation, to disclose a fact of my marriage when failing to do so could mislead you or diminish your trust in me. Circumstances and subject matter dictate when this is necessary. If I’m writing about our two rescue dogs, my husband’s profession is irrelevant in his utter devotion to them. Likewise, his job has nothing to do with my insistence that no husband should speak for his wife without her permission, and by “permission” I impose the strictest of boundaries. Saying, “Yes, Honey, go ahead and order the curry for me,” does not mean my ...

Look At The Democracy And Tyranny

During President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment trial, we’ll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact, the word democracy appears nowhere in our nation’s two most fundamental documents, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The founders laid the ground rules for a republic as written in the Constitution’s Article IV, Section 4, which guarantees “to every State ...

Trump’s Labor Department Has Provided Clarity On Joint Employment

Editor’s Note: Mark Shields is off this week. The following column is by Veronique De Rugy Three years into the Trump administration, we see a clear pattern forming. The Obama administration implemented labor rules that make the labor market less flexible, often at the expense of smaller businesses, but in ways that made unions happy. The Trump administration then takes these rules away. The latest example is the dismantling of the Obama Labor Department’s joint employer rule. As the new Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia and the Office of Management Director Mick Mulvaney explained ...

Bloomberg Is Showing Dems A Good Time

Democrats could use some cheering up now that their conventional politicians are locked in fierce ideological battle. The moderate Democratic majority fears that an aggressive left could saddle them with a zombie candidate sure to lose to President Donald Trump. That person could also cost them control of the House by hurting down-ballot Democrats in hard-won swing districts. Oh, happy day, then, that former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is tapping his vast fortune to make defeating Trump central to his mission. Bloomberg is vying for the Democratic nomination, and his candidacy is ...

Flying Solo: Getting Up Close With A Shark

To wrap up my four part series on ‘Adventures in Africa,’ I wanted to share my last day spent in Cape Town where I went cage diving with sharks. What better way to conclude an action-packed vacation than by braving one of the world’s most feared creatures of the sea? The morning of ...