January 1, 2009 RSS feed / Opinions

New Year's resolutions are better made, kept when they look backward rather than forward

If there's one thing this world doesn't need right now, it's another column about New Year's resolutions. We make 'em, we break 'em, life goes on. More...

Book Review

FDR By JEAN EDWARD SMITH

The parallels between the beginning of Franklin Roosevelt's and Barack Obama's incoming administrations are striking. Their family backgrounds could not be more different, but the problems they faced and their personalities have many similarities. More...

The quail hunting tradition in South Georgia 'one of the grand experiences' of outdoors

ARLINGTON - Perhaps the best part of the day on a quail plantation is early morning—when the peace and solitude of the predawn, with stars brightly shining overh ead, give way to the eager barking of bird dogs. More...

It's a family tradition

Hank Williams Jr. had an old country song that was titled "It's a Family Tradition." He would sing "Hank, why do you drink; why do you roll smoke; why must you live out the songs that you wrote?" He ends it with "It's just a family tradition. More...