THIS PAST TUESDAY JOHN MCCAIN and Barack Obama easily swept their respective Potomac primaries. This leaves McCain as the presumptive Republican nominee and Hillary in a bit of trouble. First
AFTER TWO WEEKS OF WAITING, THIS Sunday is the Super Bowl. I hate the second week between the League Championships and the Super Bowl. How many stories about Tom Brady’
FOUR DAYS AGO WE CELEBRATED Martin Luther King’s birthday. Three states, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama also celebrated Robert E. Lee’s birthday on the same day, which, at best,
IT’S EMBARRASSING HOW DEPENDENT I am on my computer. I don’t even like writing grocery lists longhand. Composing this with pen and paper would feel like taking a
I SUBMITTED THIS THURSDAY mornining with the Iowa caucus results many hours away. So I decided to write about a significant time in our history that has relevance today. It
ALL THIS CHRISTMAS CHEER CAN BE downright exhausting... at least the shopping portion. If you’re anywhere near Main Street or Montana Avenue or the promenade, the sound you hear
“DIZZY” DEAN WAS A HALL OF FAME pitcher during the 1930s with the famous “Gashouse Gang” St. Louis Cardinals. He became a sportscaster known for his colorful butchering of the
TOMORROW’S A BIG DAY IN COLLEGE football all across the country. It’s called “Rivalry Weekend.” Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., before a sellout crowd at the L.
GIVEN THE CURRENT STATE OF THE world, I feel sorry for young people. Sure, they have all the latest gizmos: iPods, iPhones, Blackberrys, YouTube, MySpace and text messaging. And, somehow,
