School's out for summer, but Congress's been attending summer school. Elected officials are breaking into a sweat carrying out lesson plans. While a rout insists on graduating by handing in the same paper on every subject. They carry cheat sheets and scribble the same answer on every test.

As...

With Martin Luther King Day in the gloaming of Inauguration Day of the first black president of the United States, one can't help but wonder if Dr. King is not doing cartwheels in his grave. Though most people I've talked to hesitate to admit race played a part in their...

Norwalk, CT-- I'm not going to lie. I hate the holidays. In my many juvenile pursuits, I've dissented against many Christmases, but I can't say it was all energy well spent. Like a last minute shopper possessed with the spirit of 'Tis the Season the laws of attraction reeled me...

Wilmington, NC--Past elections may have tagged North Carolina red, but the prevailing electorate is ambiguous about color. Though the state is geographically a part of the south, and all of that entails, I think its people are emancipating themselves from its days of yore. Votes that laid dormant in past...

I went to the John McCain a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina earlier this month and I have the autograph to prove it. But like, John McCain, I had to fight for it. I hustled over there after finding out about it an hour before, hoping to penetrate the press...