A full-size billboard created by an Iowa tea party group and erected in Mason City compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin. Under pictures of the three are the labels: “Democrat Socialism,”…

Kodachrome, they give us those nice bright coloursThey give us the greens of summersMakes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeahI got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photographSo mama…

The internet’s eBay made Meg Whitman a billionaire. She now wants to see if unlimited spending can make her governor of California this November.Whitman spent $90 million to win the Republican nomination. She has good…

Last week Federal Judge Joseph Tauro ruled in favor of states’ rights and declared that state laws allowing gays to be married trump the federal Defense of Marriage Act.In one fell swoop, Judge Tauro made…

The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that it would ask for a two-cent increase in the cost of a first class stamp, from 44 cents to 46 cents, as of the first of the year,…

Tuesday’s debate be-tween Reps. Todd Tiahrt and Jerry Moran, who are battling over the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Sam Brownback, who is running for governor, comes as a disappointment…

Someone called Lady Gaga has touched off a new fad.  In the singer’s video, “Bad Romance,” her eyes appear bigger than life in a bathtub scene.“Wow,” said the teen-agers who watched. “Let me look like…

Paro, the robot baby harp seal, coos, recognizes her name, opens her eyes when talked to, squeals when held upside-down or treated roughly.Paro — and all of her sisters — were “born” in Japan and…

On a windy April 29, I was at home watching a new baby great-grandson for a couple of hours when my world was turned upside-down. I was informed that my oldest son, Charlie, had a…

On June 30, my youngest child was hit by an SUV while sitting in a shopping cart in the parking lot at Walmart.It wasn’t a big hit — my child didn’t go flying across the…