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If there's one thing that never fails to annoy me, it's people who seem to think of the South as a backward or even evil part of America. I've seen a lot of it on this site. Folks who have...

I was in Barnes & Noble today when I got a pleasant surprise. I was looking at the table of newly released trade paperbacks when I saw Sarah Palin's smiling face. I was surprised to see that Palin's book was...

Sarah Palin's ghostwriter has got some 'splainin' to do. She apparently confused a legendary basketball coach with an American Indian activist to create the impression she wanted. Palin's book, "Going Rogue," introduces each chapter with epigrams from famous authors that...

Oh, dear Lord. Now the Democrats are getting into it too. In response to the goofy 10 principles for being a Republican that I wrote about last week, now someone on Daily Kos has come up with a list of...

The story from earlier today about the slaying of four Washington police officers has taken a bizarre twist that may have far-reaching implications in Republican politics. Apparently the primary suspect in the case is one Maurice Clemmons, who has been...

I probably should wait to write this, because writing done when you're angry rarely turns out well. But I just heard about the four police officers who were killed Sunday morning in Parkland, Wash., and I am mad as hell....

As we struggle with the decision of what to do in Afghanistan, it might help to look back to December 2001. That's when we had Osama bin Laden (remember him?) and his leadership bottled up in Tora Bora only to...

Let's talk about the purpose of government. Folks on this site pretty much run the gamut from those who feel the government should do everything to those who wish the government were small enough to drown in a bathtub. But...

"The people have a right to know everything about everyone all the time." -- RICHARD THORNBURG, "Die Hard 2" There are very few moments in the first two "Die Hard" movie more viscerally satisfying to the audience than when Bonnie...

It was always a strange story, and now it has become a desperately sad one. Mike Penner, 52, a sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times, was found dead in his home Friday. The cause of death reported in the paper...