"Man's body found near trailer park." That was the headline in the Cortez Journal [Colo.] on June 23, 2001.

I was then the Journal's managing editor and had copy-edited the article, but I can't say that I attributed a great deal of importance to the finding of the as-yet-unidentified body....

On April 19, Alaska's Senate passed a resolution that claims "sovereignty for the state under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution." Now the resolution will head to Governor Sarah Palin's desk, where she will be faced with the decision of whether to join Texas Governor Rick Perry in endorsing...