Back when the world was less urgent, about all you had to do to know if you could sleep easily at night was to turn on Walter Cronkite. ...more

March 15, 2009

It was a story that begged for an investigation. In a small Florida town, a well-known mother and her 8-year-old daughter are killed in an accident on a narrow, two-lane country road. ...more

January 22, 2009

I saw the cartoon in this morning's paper regarding all the persons and institutions who have been regularly denigrating President Bush the past eight years: Dan Rather the disgraced CBS anchor who couldn't take the heat of criticism; Nancy Pelosi, the mistress of vacuous statements and for us, unfortunately, the Speaker of the House; Harry Reid, the double dealing Senate Majority Leader; The New York Times, one of the most un-American newspapers in the country; MSNBC representing the left-biased television media and of course, Hollywood, the land of make-believe and immorality. ...more

January 1, 2009

Sarah Palin lost the election, but for a connoisseur of quotations, she's a winner. The Republican vice presidential candidate and her comedic doppelganger, Tina Fey, took the top two spots in this year's list of most memorable quotes compiled by Fred R. Shapiro. ...more

December 14, 2008