We all think of Thanksgiving as ever-present in America. Not so. In fact, it very likely would never have become a national holiday without the concerted efforts of a determined, charismatic female editor -- not unlike our own Arianna Huffington. For the details, read on....

Thank Goodness for Activists

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The tragedy at Ft. Hood reminded me of an extensive investigative piece I wrote for Psychology Today a few years ago. I'm reprinting it below. The whole article is relevant to the ongoing discussion about Maj. Hasan, but take an especially close look at the section entitled "Patients Can Really...

This isn't what it seems. It's not really a Nobel Prize. It's a "Thank-God-You're-Not-Bush" Prize. We're witnessing what research psychologists call a "contrast" effect, occurring in a grand way in an unlikely place.

Yes, many of us at home have mixed feelings about Obama because our economy is still...

March 10, 2009, The Citizen's Voice, Wilkes Barre, PA

The recent scandal involving Pennsylvania juvenile court judges Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan is the tip of an ugly iceberg.

Ciavarella and Conahan have pleaded guilty to charges that they took kickbacks totaling $2.6 million in return for...

When U.S. presidential candidate John McCain had a birthday recently, television talk-show host Jay Leno told McCain that he had planned to get him a birthday cake but that the local fire chief had objected, commenting, "That many candles?"

Indeed, 72-year-old McCain is the oldest person in U.S. history to...