Dan Jenkins, a sportswriter of rare wit, once gave us the Ten Stages of Drunkenness, which include these separate points on the road to inebriation: "Witty and Charming," "Rich and Powerful," "Clairvoyant," "Patriotic," followed by "Crank Up the ...

Once again, graduation time is upon us. By some iron rule, every graduation must have a graduation speaker, whose role has been compared to that of the corpse at a great Irish wake: His presence is deemed necessary for the event to be take place, ...

As generations of schoolchildren were told, Jamestown in 1607 was the first permanent English settlement on what would become the United States. What we learned this week is that those English settlers, confronted by the most severe drought in ...

To listen to the language of American political campaigns, you could reasonably conclude that "big" is bad and "small" is good.

Who has too much power and influence in Washington? Of course, Big Business, Big Banks and Big Money, in general. Some...

There's a hit new movie this spring, "42," the story of how in 1947 Jack Roosevelt Robinson made baseball history and American history by breaking the color barrier to become a Brooklyn Dodger and the first black man to play in the Major Leagues. ...

According to the Census Bureau, in the year 2020, there will be 214,000 living Americans over the age of 100 and, according to Washington wise-man Mark Russell, all of them will have valid State of Florida driver's licenses.

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