Tom Friedman writes in The New York Times: I am deeply worried that our political system doesn’t grasp how much our financial crisis can still undermine everything we want to be as a country. Friends, this is not a test. Economically, this is the big one. This is August 1914. This is the morning a...

by Theresa Friday, Warmer weather along the Gulf Coast has encouraged people to start their gardening chores.  Just walking around neighborhoods this week, I can tell that significant pruning is going on.  Most gardeners will spend time and effort carefully shaping a shrub or tree. ...

The following is from The Augusta Herald under the caption "Lawmakers mull tax on groceries:" State Rep. Chuck Sims has unsuccessfully sponsored proposals for several years that would restore the sales tax on groceries for the first time since the late 1990s. But as the state grapples with a multibi...

David Brooks writes in The New York Times: You wouldn’t know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates. We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We like his investments in education ...

by Dan Mullins The message from many local consumers of fresh fruits and vegetables is clear.  They prefer to purchase locally grown produce.  Local fresh market producers are hearing the message and are gearing up to meet this demand.  They are also exploring ways to better reach ...

Ibrahim Mousawi is the Shi’i Lebanese spokesman of the Hezbollah and editor of the Lebanese newspaper Al Intiqad. He also works for the Hizbollah TV station Al Manar. This month Mousawi will be allowed into Britain on a lecture tour of British universities. As a journalist for the Daily Star, ...

As people all over the country and even here in Washington, D.C. , are demanding that  the government stop recklessly spending their tax dollars, it is beyond me why the new administration would present the nation with a $3.6 trillion budget.  However, that’s what it did just last week...

Christian Wolmar writes in the Guardian, about a delicate and often unspoken aspect of personal hygiene that Southasians have practiced since the year dot: Three years ago I went to India and discovered botty nirvana. While I was suffering from one of those inevitable bouts of Delhi belly, I was sta...

Years ago when I sometimes used unsavory language,  I often used the expression "Bull Shit."  As I grew  up a bit and discovered  it was not necessary to use such crude language, that expression became "BS." Q. What did I  really mean when I used tho...

may nabola sa multiply site ko. somebody actually asked me to be their wedding photographer! the couple, or least to say the bride, have entrusted me with their captured moments. and due to my ‘over-excitement’ for this phenomena, it took me a while to realize that being the ‘photo...