These days, March Madness has taken on a meaning not connected to the NCAA mens basketball tournament. This madness is an outbreak of phony baloney outrage resulting from the economic meltdown. ...more

March 21, 2009

A move to arrest a prominent opposition leader sent thousands of anti-government protesters into the streets of the country's second-largest city Friday, accusing President Hugo Chavez of launching a new attack against his critics. ...more

March 20, 2009

Saying he was "deeply sorry and ashamed," Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty today to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history and was immediately led off to jail in handcuffs to the applause of his seething victims in the courtroom. ...more

March 12, 2009

As the nation grapples with an economic meltdown worse than any since the Great Depression, we simultaneously search for short-term remedies to relieve the crisis and long-term solutions to prevent a recurrence. While we focus on restoring reasonable oversight and sound business practices, too often we fail to recognize an underlying cause, an epidemic caused by the media-saturated cultural drumbeat of "more, fast, easy and fun." ...more

February 22, 2009

The past several months have brought a new emotion into every home in America: fear. Fear that this economic meltdown will expose the core truth of a consumer society; a truth foretold in the old Southern expression, "Pigs get fed; hogs get slaughtered." ...more

January 25, 2009

Regarding "Overhaul Zoo's Board, But Don't Toss It To Wolves": ...more

December 29, 2008

Every parent, grandparent and every adult should be up in arms at our county for the planned cuts in the amount of teachers for our middle and high schools. ...more

December 27, 2008

As 2008 comes to a close, dark days loom ahead for the television industry. The whole country has been in a blue funk for months. Layoffs. Foreclosures. Bankruptcies. Bailouts. The bad news just keeps piling up. ...more

December 15, 2008

The past couple of seasons have seen LMP2 vie with GT2 as the most fiercely-contested class in the American Le Mans Series. ...more

November 29, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama will announce the leaders of his economic team Monday, naming Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary and Lawrence Summers to direct the National Economic Council, transition officials said. ...more

November 23, 2008