May 22, 2013 12:01 a.m.
Wow, what a roller coaster that I have been on in the last 24 hours as I write this! My emotions have run the gamut.  These are my disjointed thoughts. I think I am pretty typical. At first, we have fascination with the pure power that Mother Nature ...
May 21, 2013 5:27 p.m.
Some weeks it’s tough to keep up spiritually and emotionally with all that swirls around us. In the last couple of days we’ve seen images of devastation coming out of Oklahoma. We continue to be pummeled with disheartening world news and viole...
May 21, 2013 5:15 p.m.
One of the things I like the most about the beer world is there is a sense of community – those who work at various breweries seem to really get along with each other and seem united against the big boys of brewing. However, being a brewery is stil...
May 21, 2013 5:15 p.m.
THIS is pretty interesting: GOP aides are criticizing the House Republicans’ partisan witch-hunt over the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya last year, arguing that the Party should focus more...
May 21, 2013 5:15 p.m.
Political  analyst Charlie Cook, who’s widely respected in both parties, SAYS Republicans are too obsessed with their bitter battles against President Obama: Red-faced Republicans, circling and preparing to pounce on a second-term Democratic pres...
May 21, 2013 5:15 p.m.
  David Sirota NAILS IT: Was the severe weather system culminating in yesterday’s Oklahoma City tornado intensified — or even created — by climate change? That question will almost certainly be batted back and forth in the media over the next few...
May 21, 2013 5:15 p.m.
When you are going on TV to promote your book, you expect that you will be talking about… your book. You do NOT expect that you are going to be talking about vibrators. Was there a mention of vibrators in my book? Well, yes, actually, there was...
May 21, 2013 5:15 p.m.
The man SAYS the GOP needs greater diversity: At a sold-out New Hampshire Republican Party dinner Monday night, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) encouraged the room of GOP supporters to embrace diversity and outreach if they want to take the White House in 2016,...
May 21, 2013 8:16 p.m.
Sunday was warm and muggy, but by 5 o'clock on, all Hell broke loose. I knew we were in trouble when voices on the radio sang out there was a tornado off I-40 and 177. Shawnee Mall was closed. When the wind picked up and the hail started to bang off th...
May 21, 2013 5:15 p.m.
Why am I not surprised that the silly 1984 fantasy “Red Dawn” (above) tops THIS LIST? After the December killings in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association’s chief lambasted the the evils of violent movies and video games, saying th...
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