Tyrades! By Danny Tyree “Is The Web Driving Us Mad?,” asks a recent Newsweek cover story. According to the article, there is now a growing body of evidence that our fascination with the Internet, smartphones, video games and related technology has become a clinical ADDICTION. Our ever-present hobbies have contributed to loneliness, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention-deficit disorder and “the sad [Read More]

The balance between the police and the policed is getting way out of whack — and we better restore it now. I speak of a spate of new technologies — high-tech cameras, satellites and now, drones being flown over U.S. soil — that are giving police and government way too much power over the average Joe. Our country was founded [Read More]

WASHINGTON — I decided to spend some time in the visitors’ galleries on Capitol Hill, to see firsthand what gridlock looks like. On the Senate floor, Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, was delivering a passionate speech about interest rates on student loans. “I just pray and beg my colleagues,” he said, “please pass this. Keep student loan rates manageable.” When he finished [Read More]