Stratford High School is to be applauded for starting an Information Technology Academy. The academy is funded by a National Science Foundation grant and supported by a partnership of local businesses, colleges, universities and community-based organizations. More
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Free Dog. Shouldn't someone take the side of the team that helped bring scumbag rapist Andrew Luster back to his new home in the correctional system of the state of California? More
In 1970, the late Vice President Spiro Agnew famously remarked, "In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism." More
Bill Clinton and I have a few things in common. He is making a lot of money these days mouthing off, and so am I. He came from rather humble beginnings, and I was raised in a working-class environment as well. We are both in the top income bracket, but here is where we diverge. Clinton loves paying taxes. I don't. More
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California must be punished! No, this isn't fire and brimstone about how the sinful ways of Californians warrant a plague of locusts, frogs and hairless cats (that's a subject for a future column). Rather, it's my sincere belief that American democracy and republicanism will be severely damaged if Californians are allowed to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. More
With Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction nowhere to be found, the president's Iraq talking points now center on the humanitarian upside of having ousted the Butcher of Baghdad. His speeches are liberally peppered with mentions of "mass graves" and encomiums to "freeing the people of Iraq from the clutches of Saddam Hussein." He's all but put on an Amnesty International T-shirt. More
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If movie stars can be role models, then Katharine Hepburn was mine. I loved that old girl from the first time I laid eyes on her. She was tough, independent, strong-willed and humorous, yet feminine and, yes, sexy. More
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"Clarence Thomas is my color, but he's not my kind." So sneered Al Sharpton, the black preacher and presidential hopeful during a recent Democratic candidates forum sponsored by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH coalition. Sharpton's remark reportedly elicited one of the loudest applause lines. More
If you think you will have a real choice when you vote for your member of Congress next year, think again. Your political leaders are conspiring to kill democracy in the House of Representatives. More
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