Romance is in the air. Literally. Love children of cottonwood trees float forlornly down the valley, parentally abandoned, carried wayward by each breeze, then dumped on the doorstep of anyone who will have them. I guess the trees believe in toug ...
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Remember the 1996 movie, "A Time to Kill"? An adaptation of John Grisham's 1989 legal thriller, it stars Matthew McConaughey as a small-town lawyer in Mississippi who defends a black man who killed the two white racists who had raped his 10-year-ol ...
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By DARYL CAGLE Cagle News Syndicate Now I know how Mitt Romney felt when he was dogged by complaints about his "flip-flopping." Nothing makes editorial cartoonists angrier than another cartoonist who changes his mind. There was a short-lived ...
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In the now-infamous "47 Percent" video secretly captured during a Mitt Romney fundraising speech, the GOP hopeful gleefully mentioned Jimmy Carter's Iran Hostage Crisis moment and admitted, "By the way, if something of that nature presents itself, I ...
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I don't know who they are, but I've got to hand it to them. I'm too cynical to do what they do. I speak of the Americans who, every year, donate money to pay down America's national debt. The Bureau of the Public Debt -- part of the Treasury Depa ...
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It was the pictures and riveting testimony that convinced a Philadelphia jury that abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was guilty of murdering three infants born alive following botched late-term abortions and also guilty of the involuntary manslaughter o ...
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A couple of weeks back I happened to notice an interesting school project my daughter was working on. The project had to do with understanding both its meaning and consequences when an act of bullying occurs. Initially, when hearing the word bully I ...
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What with absentee dogs, short hay, fire and the Farm Bill markup, it's been another eventful week in farming. First, our dog ran away. Bless his heart, he's 14 years old and suffers from intermittent old dog vestibular disease. Sometimes he can run ...
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Donald Trump thinks it's a no-brainer that so many American servicewomen are raped by their fellow soldiers. This week, when the increase in these crimes is the subject of a Senate hearing, Trump tweeted: "26,000 unreported sexual assults [sic] in the mil ...
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In his defense of President Obama, Press Secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon's spokesman. Carney only has to use the word "inoperative," as Ziegler did when incriminating evidence surfaced that proved h ...
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Here's one potential advance in science that has me worried: human beings may eventually live a really long time. According to the World Future Society, we are in the early phases of a superlongevity revolution. Thanks to advances nanotechnology an ...
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In 1998 when President Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially fo ...
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Americans hear from the food police all the time. There's no way to avoid them, unless by chance you live under a rock without cable or Internet. They see themselves as extra-thoughtful folks who merely wish to limit your soda intake, or get you goin ...
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"Mainstream media" are alarmed by reports that billionaires Charles and David Koch are considering the purchase of Tribune Co.'s eight daily newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. When Warren Buffett spent $344 million to purchase 28 newspape ...
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By JASON STANFORD Cagle News Syndicate If the 2010 elections weren't bad enough for Democrats, here comes the "six-year itch." With the exception of Bill Clinton's second term, the party that controls the White House loses seats in Congress si ...
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I turned 51 last week and it's official: I have turned into my father. The world makes less sense to me every day. My fellow man puzzles me more every day. I cite exhibit A: crappy stone walls. I know a woman who paid $10,000 to have a small st ...
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I've never sought the spotlight. Though I'm coming out to the world, I intend to guard my privacy. I'm making this blanket statement in part to keep rumors and misunderstandings at bay. I'm not just a white, Catholic Republican. I'm not just ...
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I would like to begin my column with a brief history lesson. When we speak of history it's something spoken in terms of past events. History is also a reminder of things that have happened in the past where lessons are sometimes learned and sometimes ...
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By JOHN METALLO For the Recorder Personnel in every school district in New York state are currently working feverishly to craft a budget which they hope will be appealing enough to district voters to get their approval at the polls this month. ...
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I think this may be leaf week. The leaves of the various hardwood trees that grace New York woodlands, hedgerows and front yards emerge each year during a fairly long period. However, there always seems to be one particular week that marks the turnin ...
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Addressing a meeting of Planned Parenthood last Friday, President Obama accused pro-lifers of wanting to "turn back the clock to policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century." Like any decade, the '50s had its problems -- racism, discrim ...
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My working theory -- you could call it a philosophy, or a freestanding reason of how the world works -- is what I call the Theory of Relative Laziness. It goes like this: Never attribute anything to conspiracy, coordination or planning when laziness ...
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Proms sure have gotten expensive these days. According to the San Jose Mercury News, high school kids spend nearly $4 billion annually for dresses, accessories, flowers, beauty products, limos and other prom-related items. The average couple spends ...
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And now for a few choice words about the recent Senate vote that scuttled universal background checks on gun purchases. And the first three of those words are: Yellow-Bellied Cowards. Here's a couple more. Gutless, Craven, Chicken-Hearted Inverteb ...
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By JOHN METALLO For the Recorder Recently, I find most of the comic relief I need in my day in the morning newspapers when reading about the next big thing that will solve the problems with New York state public schools. Today, another big jok ...
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