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  • The winter of America's discontent
    It has been more than four decades since the Congress of the United States has been able to summon the will to pass a major piece of social legislation. Not since 1965, when Medicare and the Voting Rights Act both overcame decades of opposition to become law, has Congress proved itself up to the task.
  • Deficit duet
    The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday, Feb. 8:
  • Talking couples down the aisle
    The husband and I have been invited to be mentors for newly engaged couples. This would involve getting together with couples and talking about marriage and communication. We think it would be a fine thing to do because we find that talking about marriage is always so much easier than actually doing marriage.
  • Kansas has that 2008 feeling
    Texas is too talented to get destroyed on its home floor, and Kansas is too good to lose a big lead anywhere.
  • Confessions of a Saints fan in Philadelphia
    During the lead-up to Super Bowl XLIV, sports writers and columnists from around the world offered their thoughts as to what it meant for the New Orleans Saints, the NFL's poster boys for ineptitude since the franchise's birth in 1967 - and literal orphans of the storm during the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged 2005 season - to defy their sorry history and finally make it to the Big Game.
  • Saints mix karma with strategy with celebration
    Imagine being midway through a terrible 2005 season, Hurricane Katrina's wrath is still fresh and the New Orleans Saints are discussing which high-profile free agents might save them in the offseason:
  • There was only one Tom Brookshier
    Tom Brookshier was born during one of the worst blizzards in the history of Roswell, N.M., and Monday, with the sidewalks just cleared from one of the worst in Philadelphia-area history, Brookshier was eulogized and remembered at the Ardmore Presbyterian Church before a throng of family, friends, teammates and coworkers.
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