Total strangers demand from us information about our private lives that we wouldn’t necessarily divulge to friends and neighbors because it’s none of their business.

In the last 50 years or so, deer hunting has changed a lot. And one can make a good argument that the greatest change is the advent of the food plot.

Tea Party members are descended not from the American Revolution but the French Revolution. Recent surveys show that an awful lot of Tea Party members have never had anything to do with government. It’s great that they’re getting involved, but it’s also very clear that the revolution they want focuses on tearing down institutions, rather than making them fair and equitable. This is not what the American revolutionaries did. They abolished taxation without representation — they did not abolish taxes.

If you’re among the multitude of unemployed workers in the nation, help might be on the way in the form of a Senate bill passed Wednesday. A bipartisan measure sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the bill seeks to give businesses an incentive to hire the unemployed.

For half a century, every poll has shown a media far to the left of mid-America: often jaundiced and condescending; above all, hypocritical. As Congresswoman Louise Slaughter shows, bias remains the elephant in the media’s room.

A new state law went into effect Monday requiring an operable carbon monoxide detector in nearly all homes and other residences. The legislation is called “Amanda's Law,” named after an upstate teenager who died of carbon-monoxide poisoning when a boiler malfunctioned at her friend’s home. It changes the state building code, mandating that detectors be in any residence with an adjoining garage or appliance that produces the gas.

Dear Gov. Paterson, I’m not going to be able to pay my taxes on time this year. Before you get all upset, let me explain.

Before the European colonists and missionaries stomped their black boots down on the New England rocks, there was not a single apple, not apple one along the North American coast, the entire continent or even the Western Hemisphere for that matter. Now, 300 years later, there are over 2,500 varieties growing from "sea to shining sea."

Cupid normally brings couples together, but this time he did just the opposite to a couple on Valentine’s Day.

It’s easy to understand why professional women become infuriated by glass ceilings. But if you’re not a woman, or even if you’re not in the work force, and you want some inkling as to the frustration such barriers engender, go to the drive-in window of a fast-food place and order coffee.

Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, has decided to take only a $9 million bonus this year … and people keep trying to explain to me why this is reasonable.

Suddenly, the Vancouver Winter Olympic luge racing is about more than medals. It’s about more than possibly being the last competition for USA luge record holders Tony Benshoof, Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin.

For years, game managers have said that we are currently at the bottom of the barrel, the low point in the grouse population cycle. My question is, "When are we going to turn the corner?"

Nothing about Dennis Rodman’s arrival in Elmira came close to the speculative chatter during the hour-long flight delay from Detroit to the Corning-Elmira Regional Airport on Thursday.

Presidential conventions used to be the thing of high political theater, combining drama, intrigue and the future of the free nation. Movers and shakers from across the nation would gather in mid-summer to ... well, move and shake — in a political sense, that is; give or take a Kennedy.