We have returned to our tradition of honoring our service men and women. But the best way to honor their service is to think carefully before committing them to battle.
Obama's bipartisan commission on the deficit provides a blueprint for how the state could deal with its serious funding problems in a comprehensive, pragmatic way.
The president tends toward a centrist, pragmatic approach to politics, but he also was schooled by the hard-knuckled pols of Chicago. So which Obama will come foward as he deals with the newly victorious Tea Party insurgents?
Ethnic seniors do want some control over the way they die. Some reluctantly choose hospice care in America; others opt to return to their homeland.
Many ethnic seniors did not support the state's Death with Dignity law, which is viewed as a model nationally. But they also fear becoming a burden to their families and society.
