(AP) It can be hard to get people to face the truth sometimes. Especially about lying. You don?t want your kids to eat too much, so you say all the cookies are gone. You don?t feel like going out, so you tell your date something important came up. You?re overloaded with errands, so you call…

Gene Lyons The key thing about the infamous New York Times scoop that’s drawn the theatrical wrath of the Bush administration is the last thing you’ll hear from the newspaper’s embattled editors: how little real news it contained. Nobody who’s paying attention could be surprised that U.S. agents monitor international money transfers. Bush has been…

William Rusher No president can anticipate all of the problems that will arise on his “watch,” but surely even his worst enemies will admit that George W. Bush has been handed more than his fair share of exploding cigars. To be sure, observers have long foreseen that a time would come when an alarming number…

Duane Sherrill If he knows nothing else, my son now knows exactly how long a mile is, and, let me tell you, it is considerably longer than he thought it was. In the tradition of father and son togetherness, I decided it would be nice for me and my son to participate in the Stars…

Editorial Our Viewpoint The United States was fully introduced to the realm of terrorism on Sept. 11, 2001 ? a day this country will never forget. As we creep toward the five-year anniversary of the tragedy that altered the lives of so many Americans, terrorist strikes have not disappeared. Yesterday proved yet another grim reminder…

Presented by the Department of Urban Forestry, 474-TREE Introduced in 1747 to the plant community, this native tree, also known as the Lily-of-the-Valley Tree, is a deciduous understory tree that grows from the Eastern United States from Pennsylvania south to Florida and Louisiana. The genus name comes from the Greek oxys (sour) and dendron (tree)…

Photo provided Some things never change! This youth exhibitor is having a hard time convincing his miniature donkey to jump over an obstacle in the In-Hand Jumping class. The 15th Annual Great Celebration Mule & Donkey Show closed on Saturday night and shattered all records for class entries.

J. Dale Beaty Extension Leader Crop variety trials and equipment demonstrations will be among the highlights of the 24th Milan No-Till Crop Production Field Day, scheduled for July 27 at the University of Tennessee Research and Education Center at Milan. The field day is among the best known and most attended no-till events in the…

Baby Girl Camdyn Marcia Porter was born June 5 to Torrye Jones and John Mark Porter at River Park Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces and is the couple?s first child. Her grandparents are Rhonda and Jerry Gelbaugh, Pat and the late Troy Jones and John and Cil Porter. Baby Boy Elizabeth and Luis…

Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar Dear Annie: I am married to a man who has a grown daughter, “Stella,” with small children. I have two young children from my first marriage. The problem is that when Stella is at our place, her children are out of control and she does nothing to discipline them and…