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My heart soars like a hawk I remember one day in, perhaps, 1979, when my boys were about 6 and 3, and the six-year-old had had enough of the...

Excellent analysis

My Grandfather Speaks (again) About a year and a half ago, I posted a letter my grandfather had written to his grandchildren. Here's a...

(CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO CLIP) Local boy does good (Just realized the clip starts by itself -- very annoying. Worth posting, but not worth embe...

Executive Action A story in the Wall Street Journal , that bastion of the liberal Democrat-controlled media, describes how, under the admini...

Separated at birth Only one of these couples is real, of course. The other consists of an underage girl and a hockey player and is entirely ...

Kids and Dogs (Well, kid and dogs) I finally had the chance to get out of town for more than a few hours this weekend. The big deal was that...

I think this is probably real. Nobody would just make up stuff about something as important as the Presidential Election.

Remember when you could concentrate? I took this picture recently to illustrate a story about a mushroom lecture at Saddleback Mountain, a s...

I love when the competition does stuff like this Think how dull it would have been if he had just written [GET QUOTE] and then forgot to do ...

The view from a Mile High Ed Stein of the Rocky Mountain News has a cartoon blog that should be interesting over the next few days as Denve...

A lesson on dialogue

Not goin' anywhere for a while? I hope so, because these are going to take a little time out of your life. I was looking for information...

(I think Cardinal O'Fiaich would rather have this picture from the Flax Trust than a picture of himself. Fair enough.) He did not fear t...

And now for something completely different ... A good journalist knows when to put down the dust mop and grab the camera.

Was that "Knol" or "Null"? So Google has this new thing called " Knol " that is going to replace "Wikiped...

The people of old Mississippi should all hang their heads in shame! I can't understand how their minds work -- What's the matter -- ...

Paris Mis-Match