There is something wonderfully egalitarian about college basketball. Despite that Duke is the number five team in the country, on Sunday night in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Eagles fans were optimistic at Boston College's Conte Forum. After a recent surprise victory over powerhouse Florida State, an upset of Duke was not...

I've always found that watching bank stocks is one of the most effective ways to help form an opinion on the overall economy and the housing market in particular.

For the last two years I've described the housing market as glacial, however, the ice is beginning a slow but...

I have lived my entire life in or around New York City, which is considered to be The Mecca of Basketball. I'd always counted myself among the true believers, but I recently relinquished my Knicks season tickets as prices climbed rapidly and the quality of play diminished even faster. Given...

I have no criticisms of Robert Crais' writing, other than I wish he could write as fast as I devour his work, which would require him to crank out -- at the very least -- a new book every week.

Taken, Crais' fifteenth novel featuring Elvis Cole and Joe...

There's an old adage that the book is better than the movie and that certainly holds true for Betrayal, a compelling first-person story of an FBI agent's battle against organized crime as well as the corruption in his own (Boston) office.

Betrayal was first released as The Departed, a...

Trickle-down economics is a turn of phrase that I've always found particularly annoying. The trickle-down theory is an economic philosophy Republicans love to champion when pushing tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. They claim that if taxed less, the very rich will spend more money and it will trickle-down to...

I once interviewed a banker who made the following statement: "People have to eat, people have to go to the bathroom and they need a place to sleep, so if you sell food, toilet paper or real estate you're always going to make a living."

When I obtained a...

When was the last time you woke up in the morning and said:

"Honey, let's go the Post Office and buy some stamps! The line is usually long enough that I can get through a few chapters of Moby Dick, and the people who work there are so...

The federal government is currently spending 188 million dollars per hour and has shown no sign of fiscal responsibility whatsoever with regard to reducing this number.

As a Democrat I am in favor of raising taxes with one proviso: that reforms are instituted to curtail waste and make...

There's an old joke about the hierarchy of Hollywood movies that goes something like this: The starlet was so stupid she slept with the writer.
Fortunately, Michael Wright, a former actor and current head of programming for TNT had a vision where the writer is King -- or Queen...

John Boehner hosts Small Things Considered:

This just in: Evidence for Impeachment -- Obama's Irish heritage wasn't his great, great, great grandfather -- but actually only his great, great grandfather.

In the second part of the hour, Wayne LaPierre, Head of the NRA, discusses the advantages of women's derringers and...

For the past year, a frenzied discussion has revolved around which Republican candidate will receive the presidential nomination.

I have more than 25 years of experience in broadcast television and one of my jobs was Supervising Producer at World Wrestling Entertainment, which perhaps explains my unique understanding of the GOP...

Imagine an industry that sells over three billion products a year across the world. This is not an electronic gadget or a knife that can cut through a soda can, but rather a publishing genre known as the thriller. I am a thriller and crime fiction junkie. I've been addicted...