Current Affairs

Boy, here's a real love story to get us in the mood for Valentine's Day:

Thank God there isn't a Democrat in the White House yet to irresponsibly increase the size of government and the spending needed to sustain it:

Bush, who was the first president to propose a $2 trillion budget, back in 2002, will leave office as the first president to hit $3 trillion with a spending plan.

Because of environmental concerns (clothes dryers account for 6 to 10 percent of household energy use), clotheslines may be making a comeback:

I know that with Sen. McCain's candidacy, there has been a lot of worry about choosing someone too old to be an effective leader. But do we really want to start turning important institutions over to the kids?

It's not just American schools:

Most Norwegian high school students (65 percent) don't know who Pol Pot was or what the Gulag means (64 percent). A new survey shows Norwegian 15-20-year-olds are sorely lacking in their knowledge of 20th-century history.

That cool "six degress of separation thing" that shows how interconnected we all are? Just ain't so:

My brother lives just outside Wimberley, Texas, and I've visited him there several times, so this story caught my eye:

Protests from this small school district nestled in the Texas Hill Country are reverberating across the state's school finance landscape.

OK, I'm not the greatest sports fan in the world, but does anybody disagree that this was the biggest upset in Super Bowl history? Granted, Eli did not go on "The Tonight Show" and correctly predict the victory the way Joe Namath did. But the Giants prevented the Patriots from having only the second perfect record in NFL history. The 1972 record is still good, Mr. Shula.

And it was back-to-back Manning victories -- that's the real story. Gonna be a heck of a Thanksgiving dinner at Archie's house.

For a change, the game was more interesting than the commercials.

When Britain enacted a smoking ban, pubs spent millions of pounds on patio heaters so smokers could go outside without freezing. But now:

Britain's growing café culture and taste for alfresco drinking and dining may be under threat from MEPs who want to ban the patio heater.

Women's long fight for true equality has finally achieved the ultimate victory:

For years, the world of early spring harbingers has been an old boys' network dominated by Punxsutawney Phils and Buckeye Chucks. Massachusetts legislators want that to change.