Opinion

With the release of the Iraq Study Group's findings, we have a

Attorney Needs to 'Learn Facts Before Arguing'

Adults often complain about mixed signals they get from teens, but what about the messages teens get? Here's one with major life implications: Go to college, but graduate with a load of debt. Oh yeah, like that makes getting a degree look real attractive.

"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."

Is it just me? It seems that whenever I turn to the news on TV or the radio these days, the world outlook simply gets bleaker by the minute. Could we – pleeeeeze – have just one 24-hour stretch of good news for a change? I was driving in major traffic recently, and before the news report was over I was "this close" to taking my purse and beating my radio senseless with it.

It's been an interesting time for my family in terms of learning more about our clan. My nephew had a school project on family histories. My mother shared a story as she worked on it with him and my sister. The first story piqued my brother's interest, prompting requests for more, which I suspect served as a great diversion from the tension he experienced. Also, my mother recently turned 70. As the dutiful daughter of the oldest of 13, who ran a dairy that employed and boarded them all as she grew up, she knew a lot of the "old ones" during the prime of their youths and is very conscious of her role as the link between generations.

Small-town parade keeps growing and getting better thanks to the

Many Thanks for Beautiful Kidney Donation Story

VTA's Staggering Waste Leeches Money That Should Go to Highways

Kennedy's 30 years of public service are tough act to follow