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As the Republican field for governor began to formulate almost two years ago, the players crystallized early in the game. They all figured that the wi...

“Beautiful,” the governor of Mississippi observed to the national media this week about the beaches in his state: “The coast is fine, y’all tell every...

As the Republican field for governor began to formulate almost two years ago, the players crystallized early in the game. They all figured that the wi...

“Decades later the Declaration of Independence was canonized as American scripture,” the vinegary historian Walter McDougall writes of the nation’s fo...

“Decades later the Declaration of Independence was canonized as American scripture,” the vinegary historian Walter McDougall writes of the nation’s fo...

Yogi Berra has explained that his famous quote “it’s déjà vu all over again” originated after he saw teammates Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedl...

Who needs a debt commission when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is on the case? He wants to allow federal agencies to redirect half of any un...

As the 2010 gubernatorial contest began to formulate almost two years ago, the premier face card in the mix was Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr. He was expecte...

As I walked along the beach at Gulf Shores Saturday morning I couldn’t totally avoid the tar clumps but I walked anyway...and I cried. It took me ten ...

Who says you can’t teach an old dad new twists? All across the nation this Father’s Day month, people are telling their fathers, grandfathers, and oth...