August 11, 2011

Jimmy Carter's starting to look better

In the late 1970s a peanut farmer from Georgia was our President.On Sunday morning he walked to church with a Bible under his arm to teach his Sunday school class at a Baptist church. His brother hawked Billy Beer and his mother was attacked by a ra...

February 25, 2011

To Boldly Go Nowhere

Yesterday the space shuttle Discovery blasted off on its final mission into space. Two more space shuttle launches remain. The American manned space missions that started 50 years ago with Alan Shepard's 50 mile flight will soon end.It was like yes...

July 29, 2010

Is the planet dealing with the BP spill better than humans?

"The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things, which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Eart...

July 24, 2010

Culling the conservative herd

Culling is a word which comes from the Latin colligere, which means collect. The term can be applied broadly to mean sorting a collection into two groups: one that will be kept and one that will be rejected. This is done in order to either reinforce ...

May 14, 2010

Mollohan's defeat ends nepotism in WV

Tuesday a small tsunami occurred in the world of politics but for more than the reasons you heard reported. Alan Mollahan, a Congressional veteran of 28 years, lost his bid for reelection in of all things a Democratic primary in WV.In 1982 and Robert...