Stuffed with food like the turkey we devoured on Thanksgiving Day in Georgia, I fell into a deep and dreamful sleep, chasing cranberry relis...

It's the fall movie season -- which movie will rise to the top? A feel-good hit of the year? More Harry Potter Magic? Johnny Cash? Thank...

I'm sure you've seen this news already, but I have to offer some thoughts on it. Some years back Congress came up with a way to get ...

Some things the world does NOT need: A TV-movie remake of "The Poseidon Adventure", which hits NBC Sunday night. At least its not ...

While the mind-numbing CIA case about Valerie and Scooter now includes the Washington Post and Bob Woodward, there are some keen observation...

Found a nifty bit of political insight at Nashville is Talking , about radio talk show host Steve Gill, who says the East Tennessee Republic...

It's pretty obvious I am not an anonymous blogger -- my name is part of the title, much to the dismay of my mother - "You're us...

" Reasonable people can disagree about the conduct of the war, but it is irresponsible for Democrats to now claim that we misled them a...

Kevin Drum and Glenn Reynolds have had a disagreement. You can read about their arugment thru the links above - and yes, this is my first ...

Today is Veteran's Day, and while across East Tennessee families and friends and communities have shown much appreciation and love for o...

Day by day and year by year , the indictments and allegations of corruption grow against law enforcement and justice officials in the Cocke ...

The President has announced his plans to nominate current Tennessee Regulatory Agency member Deborah Tate to the FCC. Tate has a long caree...

Voters in PA were not going to wait and see what a court might say about the questionable non-scientific teachings in the classroom. The idi...

While touring nations south of the Equator, President Bush has had to face some big questions that the U.S. media has left by the wayside, m...

A new study has compiled some statistics about childhood amputations, though hopefully we all know how such "compilations" seldom ...

A reporter asked a simple question of President Bush and the answer was a telling one - the answer was "empty". Anything important...

Ah, movies, movies, movies. My little french raison d'etre. I have some recommendations for you and some reviews too, and yes, some are ...

I want to say thanks to a few folk who have been very supportive and helpful as I unsteadily wander out onto the Web and teeter-totter about...

Billions of dollars in overcharges for Medicaid, for the Veterans Administration and other government agencies are to be repaid by U.S. drug...

Colonel Nicholas Carranza, accused of torture and crimes against humanity for his role in the violence that swept thru El Salvador in the la...