How would you like to be awakened by an airplane landing in your living room? It happened in Herndon , Virginia. Fortunately, it was a sma...

Today's New York Times tells the story of the political travails of Russian economist Sergei Guriev. Guriev , a prominent Russian econom...

Yesterday Paul Krugman (and friends) debated with Newt Gingrich (and friends) in Toronto. In some respects it sounds like a case of "ro...

President George W. Bush often claimed that America "does not glorify war." Television stations and cable networks across the la...

News from Germany is that the German government has decided they have to do something to have an economic stimulus in the periphery of the E...

We attended the Memorial Day ceremony at Bayboro this morning. It is always a rewarding experience to talk to older veterans. But I have n...

The past couple of weeks, one of the topics at Oriental Town Hall has been budgeting and planning the management of the Town's water sys...

Today's News and Observer prints an informative article about the outgoing Executive Director of the State Board of Elections, Mr. Gary...