The uproar over President Obama addressing the nation's schoolchildren to promote education is absolutely asinine. ...more

September 8, 2009

Fifth-grade students at Cracker Trail Elementary School competed in the Tropicana speech contest on Wednesday, according to Judy Santiago, teacher. ...more

April 25, 2009

A local friend called to ask if I would give a talk at a meeting of a national group of retirees. Having spoken around town a few times, I threw out some ideas of fun topics for her to pick from. "No," she said, "I want you to speak on caregiving." ...more

March 18, 2009

To a nation reeling from recession and facing long-festering problems, President Barack Obama has a simple reminder: "We are not quitters." ...more

February 25, 2009

Lake Country Elementary teacher Gitona Rogers' third-grade students were not themselves one day recently. ...more

February 12, 2009

Unpopular but unbowed, President George W. Bush defended his tumultuous two terms in a farewell address to the nation Thursday night, claiming a hard-won record of achievement. Reaching back to the Sept. 11 attacks, when the public rallied behind him, Bush declared the United States will "never tire, never falter and never fail." ...more

January 16, 2009

On this day 67 years ago, the warm shallow waters of Pearl Harbor were set ablaze with the oil of sinking ships. ...more

December 7, 2008

Michelle Obama told Democrats on the opening night of their convention that her husband and their presumed nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, emerged from humble beginnings with an understanding of the need to serve and inspire. ...more

August 26, 2008

Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor whose earnest farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University became an Internet phenomenon and best-selling book that turned him into a symbol for living and dying well, died Friday at his home in Chesapeake, Va., of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47. ...more

July 26, 2008

It has been a rough 10 days for Michelle Obama. Internet rumors claimed there was a videotape of her criticizing "whitey" from a church pulpit. A Fox News analyst suggested her affectionate on-stage knuckle bump with her husband, on the night he locked up the Democratic presidential nomination, might have been a "terrorist's fist jab." Fox also labeled her a "baby mama," a term some use for unwed mothers. ...more

June 14, 2008