Barbara Strickland

It's true that the influenza pandemic took off in 1918; however, it was preceded by smaller, allegedly related epidemics beginning in 1916. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, probably....

Again, I don't see what you are seeing. The paragraph does not imply that Holmes could have gotten her treatment in Canada. It states very simply that: A) Holmes traveled to the U.S. to get her tre...

It's difficult to find very much on Shona Holmes's situation that is not slanted from either the left or right, so I can't properly assess her story or anyone else's recounting of it for claims of "tr...

Wow. That post is well worth the read (For some reason, I couldn't access the page from your link, Luke, so here's the URL if anyone needs it: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/a-senator-...

The Smothers Brothers never made it over to Vietnam, but they did manage to piss off Nixon (bless their little lefty hearts): http://www.tvparty.com/smothers.html...

I'm slightly leery of too much government involvement myself... but on the other hand, I personally cope with chronic, expensive health conditions and, in a previous job, spent a great deal of time ta...

Eep! KBR = KBH, of course. Paging Dr. Freud......

The Rick Perry article also provides a nice analysis of Perry's campaigning style. KBR will need to step up her game in order to keep up with him. John--I think I remember reading somewhere that Tex...

"Brain blessings"--what a great story! I think I could use one right now......

"...interviews with six people on a recent afternoon on the Drag failed to turn up a college student who knew what it was. Most thought it was a yard plant, no more." I have to wonder if any of those...