In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.

I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.