Turn on the news and watch about 5 minutes. Chances are that unless you tuned in to the local sports roundup, that you heard at least one story about health. Even if you were listening to the local sports roundup, you probably heard about some athlete at a local high school with swine flu. Obesity, [...]

The honeymoon for President Obama has come to an end. After Obama’s summer vacation at Martha’s Vineyard and Camp David, the President faces some daunting tasks as the year comes to a close. The ideological notions of hope and change that Barack Obama won the presidency with have been fading fast in recent weeks The [...]

The White House has stirred up a lot of controversy in the recent days with plans to air a speech from President Obama to all school children. The speech is scheduled for Tuesday of this coming week when most schools will be back in session across the country. On the surface, a speech by the [...]

I am mentally exhausted. I am horrified by what I see on TV and by what I witnessed at my own town hall meeting – these rabid detractors of health care reform who have been led to believe that covering 47 million people so they can see a doctor is somehow a threat to the [...]

The $787 billion dollar stimulus bill that was signed into law on February 17 promised to include help for the hardest hit areas of the economic crisis, according to President Obama. While the effects of the stimulus bill are still mostly undetermined, unemployment has continued to rise steadily from the 8.1% it was in February [...]

A running debate continues over the use of credit cards. Much of the controversy involves matters like annual fees, interest rates on the unpaid balance, and the use of an account to establish credit. Articles abound on charge strategies to secure tax deductions for otherwise nondeductible interest payments. There are even dissertations explaining how balances [...]

Chances are that if you have an IRA or 401K account, the statements have not been very appealing in recent months. I started investing consistently while the Dow rode the waves above 14,000. Two months ago, my portfolio was down over 40% and has only rebounded slightly since. Thankfully I have another 30 years of [...]

Editor’s note: The Father Life is not endorsing a candidate for US President, and there are plenty of candidate comparisons already available online (two of the better ones are at glassbooth.org and votehelp.org). Instead, we’ve invited two fathers to give us the reasons they have chosen their respective candidates. Miguel Guadalupe’s pro-Obama article follows. For [...]

I just gave up on the Biden-Palin debate. Or should that be Palin-Biden? I tried to watch it. In fact, I wanted to watch it. I lasted about 20 minutes. I couldn’t take anymore.

And so the Hill/O – Drama Continues. The Penn Primary. While I was watching the Hillary’s win margin counter bounce between one and two digits all night, I wondered how much of a difference this primary would make, and hoped that, somehow, time would speed up so we wouldn’t have to deal with the incessant [...]