American CEO's Are Forty Times As Productive As Germans At least that is what one might assume from the above graphic. Tha...

Circassia: I just learned where the Circassian homeland is. It is the area in the North Caucasus near the shore of the Black Sea. Sochi i...

Make no mistake about it. The violence in Kiev we saw on TV was orchestrated in Moscow. Or perhaps in Sochi. The map below depicts the mai...

Early this evening, the Republican-dominated US House of Representatives passed a "clean" bill to raise the debt ceiling without t...

From early childhood, we Americans are conditioned to believe the most important human events are the big game. Athletic contests define us....

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of ev...

Our local curmudgeon has a few things to say about those in Pamlico County who deny climate change science. Early last week, Tony Tharp, who...

The comings and goings of local peripatetic journalist and curmudgeon Tony Tharp are sometimes mysterious. He disappeared from the 'net ...