The great natural peace that endures all torment
Just yesterday morning a half century ago, I got my first taste of solitude.
I’d wandered out of the cabin where my mother and grandmother were cleaning up after dinner (as we called the noon meal she served to all of us at once, including cowhands). Full Story
No substitute for victory
If anyone does a year-end wrap-up of the worst ideas of 2012, losing the presidential election deserves to be high on the list. Full Story
The bipartisan nuclear bailout
Super Tuesday demonstrated the rancor rife in Republican ranks, as the four remaining major candidates slug it out to see how far to the right of President Barack Obama they can go. While attacking him daily for the high cost of gasoline, both sides are traveling down the same perilous road in their support of nuclear power. Full Story