There's no question that social networking Web sites have added new and in many ways exciting dimensions to people's social lives. Facebook, My Space and the like have made it easier to meet and co...
Charles Krauthammer: Rotation of Power As the Afghanistan War intensifies – Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops – it has come to be seen as Obama’s war. Not so. It’s become...
George Will: A Timid Progressive There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes ...
Donald Conkey: Ask bold questions of political candidates Last Saturday morning, I again attended the Cherokee County Republican Party’s monthly breakfast at the Lodge at BridgeMill near Sixes. I attend these monthly meetings for several reasons, ...
Marguerite Cline: Never say 'My child wouldn't do that' There was a time when it was not unusual to hear someone say, “My child wouldn’t do that.” Rarely do you hear that said now. Too many children have done things their parents neve...
Matt Towery: Farewell to a hero: Al Haig My recent bouts of vertigo, and the fall and concussion that resulted from one of them, meant that I was unable to attend the funeral services for a great American, Al Haig. So I’ll eulogiz...
Marguerite Cline: Douglas Gay was a precious child The students that were in my class during the first year I was a teacher will always be special to me. It was in the fall of 1958 that I began my teaching career at Clayton Elementary. My class wa...
Matt Towery: So Just Shoot Me Go ahead and throw mud at me. Kick me. Call me a Republican In Name Only. I don’t care. This time, I’m siding with Alec Baldwin. The actor and liberal activist (and loud “vocali...