Opinion

The discretionary portion of the federal budget accounts for a small fraction of  the national government’s annual spending.

He’s Uncle Ben. The rice. Charmin. Ivory soap. The Folgers in Iowa’s cup.

There’s nothing like literally being slapped awake the first night in your new home by your wife exclaiming, “There was an animal on my chest, but then it ran away,” to make you wonder what kind of

    Can a third political party, or at least a loose organization of political independents, hope for any success in today’s political climate? I used to think not.

Comedian Jeff Foxworthy built an industry with one of the best joke set-ups since “Knock-knock, who’s there?”

By RICK MORAIN

I learned to shoot pool as a kid in the attic of our house. (When we talked about it in more formal terms, it was the “third floor”. But among ourselves it was the attic.)

By DOUGLAS BURNS
d.burns@carrollspaper.com