http://creators.com/ Creators Syndicate is an international syndication company that represents cartoonists and columnists of the highest caliber. en Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:27:23 -0800 4295d8e902be5c69e10105d83e731121 http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/william-moyers/a-bigger-tent.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>They pitched a big tent on the roof of an office building overlooking the Capitol rotunda the other day for a party to celebrate a new law that treats mental illness and addiction like any other chronic disease. But the tent still wasn't big enough for the man standing almost alone amid the crowd.</p> <p>&quot;I don't dare tell anyone I am a recovering alcoholic,&quot; he whispered to me as if ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sat Nov 22, 2008<br/><br/> dd06fb17d1f617cce9e2876959f5074f http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/rallie-mcallister-your-health/beneficial-bacteria-boost-immunity-reduce-risk-of-infection.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>As members of a highly germ-conscious society, it's easy to get the impression that all bacteria are hazardous to our health. A growing body of scientific evidence suggests certain types of bacteria, known as probiotics, actually have a number of important benefits.</p> <p>Probiotics are living microorganisms that thrive in the human gut. Numbering in the trillions, the total population of micr ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sat Nov 22, 2008<br/><br/> 2143ae9691dc532e65f59059f3885ffe http://creators.com/opinion/daily-editorials/congress-can-t-risk-collapse-of-domestic-auto-industry.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Congress has opened for Detroit's automakers a narrow path to the financial bailout they say is essential to their survival. The Big Three now have 11 days to put together convincing arguments that the federal aid will bridge them across this crisis.</p> <p>We urge the companies to sharpen their political skills and make a better showing when they return to Congress on Dec. 2. We also caution l ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sat Nov 22, 2008<br/><br/> 9012cfb45e441511a0ff0f266b740b0a http://creators.com/opinion/bill-oreilly/just-say-no.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>You may remember that Nancy Reagan fought against drug consumption by urging Americans to &quot;just say no.&quot; Now we need Mrs. Reagan again because some poorly run corporations are asking for taxpayer bailouts and loans. They want charity from hardworking Americans who are getting pounded in a chaotic economy primarily caused by irresponsible businesspeople.</p> <p>The situation is totally ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sat Nov 22, 2008<br/><br/> c1a313d4cce70aa31793868f17c112b5 http://creators.com/opinion/michael-barone/the-limits-of-success-and-failure.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>We Americans are blessed with a history that teaches that things work out right. Our first president set the precedent of relinquishing power he could have had for life and returning to his farm. Two of our greatest presidents were struck down, Abraham Lincoln by an assassin and Franklin Roosevelt by grave illness, at a moment of transcendent victory. Such a history of exceptional leaders is a ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sat Nov 22, 2008<br/><br/> c7f96c1df6e264addb5acdded392b678 http://creators.com/opinion/norman-solomon/the-media-s-center-a-place-of-fog-and-spin.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>A Democrat hasn't moved into the White House for 16 years, and &mdash; between the fog of memory and the spin of media &mdash; no wonder so much nonsense is being promulgated by news outlets about how Barack Obama must hew to &quot;the center&quot; if he knows what's good for his presidency.</p> <p>In a typical media object lesson on the consequences of overreach by a new Democratic arrival in ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sat Nov 22, 2008<br/><br/> e8349d5306faafe30aa2d8f8dfcad9d0 http://creators.com/opinion/paul-craig-roberts/america-s-moronic-iraqi-policy.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>According to all accounts, the United States faces its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with $2 trillion in near-term financing needs for bailouts and economic stimulus. This is an enormous sum for any country, especially one that is so heavily indebted that it is close to bankruptcy. If the money can't be borrowed abroad, it will have to be printed &mdash; a policy that carrie ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sat Nov 22, 2008<br/><br/> 21a819409ff319ebe754b075b6efc261 http://creators.com/opinion/daily-editorials/surge-in-piracy-must-be-met-with-force.html Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Three months after taking office in 1801, President Thomas Jefferson rebuffed Tripoli's demand that the fledgling United States pay $225,000 in ransom to end pirate attacks against American merchant vessels off the North African coast. Instead, Jefferson dispatched Navy frigates to the Mediterranean, setting the stage for the Barbary wars that ultimately eradicated the pirate menace.</p> <p>Thi ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sat Nov 22, 2008<br/><br/> 999ccc55abf19755f21c7b435390ad18 http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/classic-ann-landers/classic-ann-landers-2008-11-23.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Dear Ann Landers: &quot;Chad&quot; and I have been living together for quite some time. He's a terrific guy and has wanted to marry me ever since we met. I have been reluctant to commit because he is pursuing a career in music and works only part time. He makes only enough money to pay the rent. Chad is handsome, fun, caring and great to my family. He also cleans, cooks and keeps up the house a ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> 9429d19a383a9c802de009456118a6f0 http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/men-mars-women-venus/john-gray-s-men-are-from-mars-women-are-from-venus-2008-11-23.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Dear John: I recently shared with a close friend the fact that my husband and I had an argument. Upon hearing this, she admitted that two months ago, he had come over to her house at two in the morning and asked her to help him with an excuse for why he was coming home so late, and she did. Of course, it concerned me that she hadn't mentioned this to me before now. I told her that, if she were ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> 551a64d8b856ae1c4b189703286ecc05 http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/holiday-mathis-horocopes-spanish/los-horoscopos-de-holiday-08-11-23.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 Esta semana, Plut&oacute;n, la influencia planetaria no planetaria, deja el dominio de Sagitario una vez m&aacute;s. Es como un enamorado que no puede acabar con una relaci&oacute;n que est&aacute;, vaya, destinada a terminar. Pero esta vez realmente es el final -- cuando menos para nosotros. Plut&oacute;n no estar&aacute; de vuelta por 248 a&ntilde;os terrenales, lo que equivale a uno de sus a&nt ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> bda2da7b01003091ec32baf33c03b543 http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/annies-mailbox/annie-s-mailbox-r-2008-11-23.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Dear Annie: When my husband retired from the military, he was offered a great job in another state. The pay is terrific and there is a wonderful pension plan.</p> <p>The problem is this city. It is unfriendly, crime-ridden and filled with alcoholics and people who dump trash everywhere. I am also sick of the weather. It is either hot and dry or hotter and drier.</p> <p>After four years and two ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> 94d33c465a050fc1d7d0ee59ca4b2864 http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/edith-lank-house-calls/leaving-the-bed.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Dear Edith: My friend is 85 years old. She has pains in her heart a lot. She lived with her son since her husband died and she signed the house over to her son, without having to leave and being able to live there till she dies.</p> <p>Now he's planning to get married to a woman who has two children. She says she's going to move out because his girlfriend doesn't get along with her. She says wh ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> 37ef59f8cc057fe04c8ed628dae28034 http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/holiday-mathis-weekly/horoscopes-by-holiday-2008-11-23.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>This week, Pluto, the non-planetary planetary influence, leaves the realm of Sagittarius yet again. He's like a sweetheart who can't end a relationship that is, alas, destined to end. But this time it's really final &mdash; at least for us. Pluto won't be back for 248 earth years, which equals one of his years. The aspect signifies return to tradition and reliance on the kind of hard, honest wo ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> c2c66a6e96e2ee5780c2a0bd74a49433 http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/sylvia-rimm-on-raising-kids/disadvantages-of-early-entrance-into-kindergarten.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Q. My child misses the cut-off date for kindergarten entrance by five weeks. What can be the disadvantages for this little boy who will be a year younger than the other students?</p> <p>A. There are plenty of disadvantages for early entrance into kindergarten, but under some circumstances there are advantages. Age and maturity play an important part in children's adjustment to school and althou ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> 5d59f76f1c411ba00595e81a68a3f88a http://creators.com/opinion/steve-chapman/-socialism-is-not-the-problem.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Something about Barack Obama has a way of driving some conservatives completely batty. John McCain detected something &quot;a lot like socialism&quot; in his tax plan. Veteran conservative media critic L. Brent Bozell has no doubt the new president will &quot;deliver socialism.&quot; But the prize goes to Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., who says &quot;we've elected a Marxist&quot; who may create an Ame ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> 2d97870ea3aef4996d401b1a7ed04b1e http://creators.com/opinion/rhonda-lokeman/thanksgiving-2008.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Let us bow our heads at the annual supper of national gratitude to give thanks and praise, in no particular order:</p> <p>&mdash;CLAP FOR THE WAXMAN. There's no better government watchdog in the U.S. House of Representatives than Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. As ranking member and chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Waxman held powerful feet to the fire and eschewed sacr ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> 85a8e6e407a69ebb748b4c58fcfbdc51 http://creators.com/opinion/connie-schultz/domestic-partner-registry-well-it-s-a-start.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>As soon as the priest heard about proposed plans for a domestic partner registry in Cleveland, he called City Councilman Joe Cimperman.</p> <p>&quot;You are disloyal to your faith,&quot; the priest told Cimperman, who is a lifelong Catholic and chief sponsor of the registry. &quot;This is the wrong thing to do.&quot;</p> <p>My immediate response would have been to ask the priest a few questions ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> eaff8502ed7d6a050aacd639e7180ddc http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/horoscopes-by-holiday/horoscopes-by-holiday-2008-11-23.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>Sagittarius aspects have us all riled up like children on too much candy. Luckily for us, the Libra moon is a patient nanny, a regular Mary Poppins who turns all our precocious and hyper energy into fun and games. Libra lunar energy offers brilliant ways of achieving peace and harmony, and we need only to match our intention with hers.</p> <p>ARIES (March 21-April 19). You are an independent th ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/> d21df3e569ab8e23c7931e46360252f1 http://creators.com/lifestylefeatures/travel-and-adventure/pearl-harbor-home-of-the-brave.html Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 <p>The second time the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor it was during a raging tropical storm in March 1942. It was the best of battles: nothing was damaged, no one was injured or killed, and everyone went home to tell the tale another day. In this case, it was decades before the public learned there had even been a second bombing.</p> <p>About 2 a.m. that stormy night, radar detected two approaching ...<br> <br/>Updated: Sun Nov 23, 2008<br/><br/>