Just how long is the ballot voters will wrangle when they go to the polls in the newly configured riding of Carleton? It takes almost origami-level skills to re-fold the ballot. The ballot is so ...

James Taranto edits the Journal's op-ed pages. Until January 2017 he wrote the popular Best of the Web column for WSJ.com. In August 2007 he was named a member of the Journal's editorial board.

At our March meeting, the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg welcomed Cindy Beaston from Columbia, Pa. to share a program on the June 28, 1863, burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge. The ...

During the 1970’s, cyber security and computer science emerged in the formative stages. Most people at this time were using IBM Main Computers and Bill Gates as a young high school student was ...

The Vienna of today [this was written in 1939] is a pretty incorporated town with all the modern conveniences stretched along the new highway and the carline toward Williamstown — spreading out ...

When I was hired in March, 2004, as the first Director at Historic Fort Steuben, I had inherited an organization with an amazing story. Founded in 1986 by forward thinking individuals representing ...

It just seems odd to me to complain about the high cost of most commodities and then cheer those who have been put in charge of finding waste when they are likely responsible for those complaints ...

While today, in India, Buddhism is strongly linked with social activism and anti-caste movements, the reason Buddhism thrived from the Ashokan period in the 3rd century BC to the Pala period in ...

Special to the SentinelRecently I had the opportunity (?) to help loved ones move, and I question my use of the word “opportunity” for the following reasons: 1. Whether moving myself or ...

The whereabouts of local people and events were often featured in these columns. Here are a few from The News Messenger of Lyon County on […] On the Porch | News, Sports, Jobs - Marshall Independent ...

Longtime readers of this weekly effort may recall my affection for the word "woodenheadedness." It comes from The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman's 1984 book about ...

CBS Records was well aware that there were no black records at all in the pop Top 20 the week they sent the debut single from “Thriller” to radio in October of 1982. Faced with the very real ...