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Many of my friends know that I am a freak for the dulcet sounds of Tommy James and the Shondells - I offer them to you here, with requisite ...

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- A man suspected of fatally shooting two adults at a Knoxville church Sunday was motivated by frustration over...

You know it's hard to get around the messianic air that surrounds the democratic candidate Obama as he returns from a triumphant march t...

A communist sympathizer whose body language showed remarkable similarity to mad suicide bombers in Baghdad, launched himself in a bold move...

Did you know that the United States has the highest incarceration rates in the world? In the last accounting that I am aware of, in 2006, w...

You can kick us out when we are good and ready to be kicked out... I am not going to get too involved with the topic, but is anyone else str...

Joseph Goebbels I don't tend to watch much television, we don't have one at home, preferring to peruse the usually more thorough pri...

Ricardo Neuman sent this to me from Thailand: If puzzle pieces are missing in the Roxanna Brown case, the picture is clear, a terrifyi...

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Republicans are great revisionists. You know all of Clinton's economic success was really a result of Bush, Reagan, "the market...

I tossed and turned last night, thinking about my decision today, a decision that could change my life forever. I gently shook my wife...

When I drive through the Southwest, something that happens about 6 to 8 times a year, I am usually in a rental vehicle without a cd or tap...

"Where a man first puts his feet will be his home forever" Indian Proverb Got back from Santa Fe the other day. It was a great tr...

I take off for New Mexico this morning - blog will be on hiatus. Have a great fourth of July holiday. Robert

I go back a long way with the San Diego Padres. I am a San Diego native and when I was a kid I would go downtown to Westgate Park and se...

Paria ©2008 Robert Sommers Photograph I was at my local saloon last week, nursing my cranberry juice and a fistful of peanuts - well let...

I was talking to a good friend on the phone the other day and I made mention of an uncomfortable dinner we had shared a few years ago with o...

For years the El Garces Hotel Restoration project manager Franz Lipszchult had a problem finding volunteer workers who wanted to help in the...

It's been a busy week on the news front, with record oil prices, a renewed call for offshore drilling, the protracted national grief ove...

From the BBC: Blogger arrests hit record high Elections in China, Pakistan and the US could prompt more arrests More bloggers than ever face...

The following is an article I read from Saturday's San Diego UT. I thought it was an interesting take on a game that wouldn't allow...

Delorez stretched out on the white starched sheets of her hospital bed and thought things could be worse. Feeling no pain from the morphine...

It has been a really interesting week. Some of you know that I had a heart attack Monday morning. I got out of the hospital yesterday. I ...