Matt Haarington Archive
You’ve seen him fill arenas with screaming fans and tear up the hashtags of social media. The independent senator from Vermont brings bold ideas and dreams of occupying the White House. But somebody’s gotta break it to you, and it …
“When Hobson called for seven volunteers to go with him to what promised to be certain death, four thousand men responded–the whole fleet, in fact. Because all the world would approve. They knew that; but if Hobson’s project had been …
There are two types of people in this world: Those who know what the title of this article means, and those who died before last Thursday. Among that first group, there are those who say the dress is white and …
Dear FOX Executives, My social media news feed now blows up on Wednesday nights, and you’re to blame. That’s when you air “Red Band Society,” your drama about teens with life threatening diseases living in a children’s hospital. You see, …
(NOTE: The first case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) diagnosed in the United States occurred yesterday in Dallas. With this sentinel event, I’ve revisited this article from August to update some of the information. If you are a healthcare worker, …
If you’ve been following the recent spate of news on high-profile shootings lately, you may have seen somewhere that President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to the post of Surgeon General of the United States has been met with …
“Money is your work in paper form,” my high school history teacher told my class way back in 1987. Then he pulled out his wallet and showed us a piece of green paper. “This ten dollar bill represents about 30 …
It didn’t surprise me to read the headlines that Republicans blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act. We expect a Republican-controlled House of Representatives to do these things. No, my surprise came when I read the articles. That’s when I found out …
May I be the first to offer what will likely become a much-repeated paraphrasing of a famed Monty Python skit: “Obamacare is no more. It has ceased to be. It’s expired and gone to meet its maker. It is stiff. …
I was looking at internet videos the other day when I came across one of a well-known political pundit talking about libertarians. His first words described libertarians as a faction of the Republican Party. And he couldn’t be more wrong. …
