Most of us are familiar with the parable of the scorpion and the frog, in which the frog's charity and kindness is repaid with cruelty by the scorpion. For those that aren’t, let me recount it for you ...

That night, I told all frogs who I am and what I believe. I talked about my 28-year career as a scorpion, almost all of which has been more or less stinger-free, frogwise. I talked about my 12 years ...

A scorpion asked a frog for a lift across the river. The frog replied "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion said "If I sting you then we both will drown." So the frog agreed to give the ...

AGREEMENT: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, concluded a negotiation over nuclear weapons last week. AP Few residents of the Middle ...

In an ancient fable, a scorpion wants to cross a body of water, but because he can’t swim, the creature asks a frog to hitch a ride on the amphibian’s ...

Riverbanks can get lonely. Luckily, plenty of eager scorpions are around to offer frogs their company. Consider these happy pairs: The Scorpion: You’re paddling a bit slow. Need a boost? The Frog: Is ...

To understand the spendaholic nanny-staters running things in Washington today -- by which I mean all the Democrats there and, on any given day, at least half of the Republicans -- you have to ...

A good friend of mine told me a Mexican fable he heard growing up about the nature of beings that live on this earth. Humans, like animals, bugs and creatures, have natural instincts and sometimes, if ...

I notice something curious: we are constantly told by pro-SSM activists that conservative/religious fears of significant curtailment of religious liberty as the result of gay rights are paranoid. And ...