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The Good Life: Staying Active? My Eggs Keep Me Moving

Eggs keep me alive, more or less. It is not just the eating of them, although I do down two scrambled eggs, dolloped with mayonnaise, almost every morning. It is the getting of those eggs that fulfills my doctors’ instructions to get a half-hour of vigorous exercise nearly every day. That begins with a walk toward the barn, located about 100 yards from our farmhouse. Out where we live, one does not simply walk out the back door and stroll into the barn. Chores pop up all along the way. Left to themselves, our four or five cats would be barn cats. My wife decided to entice them ...

Canine Companion: Reactivity Is A Response To Fear

Today we are going to talk about reactivity. A reactive dog is generally associated with aggression, but in most situations, that’s not the case. First of all, if as you are reading this article you believe your dog is displaying signs of reactivity, I would like to make it clear that this does not mean you have a bad dog. Reactivity is a response to fear; it’s essentially a “fight or flight” response that’s natural to the body. I know the display of reactivity may be embarrassing and frustrating as you are attempting to take your dog for a walk down the street or visit ...

Sure, Dems Have A Problem

The laziest and most common campaign story right now is a version of the following: “The Democrats are in disarray!” “The Democrats are failing to coalesce around a single candidate!” “The Democrats are handing this election to the Republicans!” Add a story or two about the Iowa caucus-trophe, capture a few screenshots of online bickering between candidates’ supporters and throw in a quote from a primary voter who didn’t make up her mind about how she was going to vote until she walked across the parking lot at her polling place — and ta-dah! You, too, could ...

Political Bias On College Campuses

A recent Pew Research Center survey finds that only half of American adults think colleges and universities are having a positive effect on our nation. The leftward political bias, held by faculty members affiliated with the Democratic Party, at most institutions of higher education explains a lot of that disappointment. Professors Mitchell Langbert and Sean Stevens document this bias in “Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges.” Langbert and Stevens conducted a new study of the political affiliation of 12,372 professors in the two leading private ...

Will We Like Mike?

In the seven presidential elections since 1992, the Republican presidential nominee has won the popular vote exactly once. The lone GOP candidate to receive a majority of the national vote was George W. Bush in 2004. Bush’s election-day victory over Democrat John Kerry, who had, in most observers’ views, “won” the debates between the two, was explained by the respected Democratic pollster Peter Hart: “Voters preferred I Like over IQ.” One test of deciding between presidential nominees is, “Who would you rather have a beer with?” which is another way of asking which ...

Before Fixing Tomorrow, Dems Must Fix Today

Like all candidates, Democrats focus their campaigns on what they will do if elected. Progressives often accuse Joe Biden in particular of wanting to take America back to the Barack Obama years. And it’s true that Biden often portrays his candidacy as a restoration of the era in which he served as Obama’s vice president. But that’s not a bad stance for any of the Democrats to take. They and their followers must understand that to move forward, America must first move back. The next president must reverse much of the damage President Donald Trump has wrought. The work will be ...