Set your calendars ahead one day - at least, if you live in Samoa (capital, Apia). Samoa will have no Friday this month. At midnight ton...

Today was a lovely Christmas Day. Good friends visited for coffee ( The Bean was closed) and for Christmas Dinner. It caused me to recolle...

It looks like Santa Claus delivered a Christmas present to Indiana Democrats. You have to read it to believe it: http://www.dailykos.com/s...

Disturbing post today on Hungary's authoritarian revolution .  It sounds like a more extreme version of what has been happening in Wisco...

A great man died today. Vaclav [pronounced "Vatslav"] Havel had been a literary figure and dissident under the Czechoslovak comm...

Starting a war is a mug's game . This has been true in almost all cases in international wars over the past two centuries. Just think ...

Tonight's TV news showed joyous scenes of our military members returning from Iraq to be united with their families. Those who answer ...

Yesterday morning the Pamlico County Board of Elections met to complete the hearing on the protest of the Grantsboro election. We sustained ...