An audio-animatronic President Barack Obama made its debut on the Fourth of July at Walt Disney World. ...more

July 5, 2009

Calling all young wordsmiths. To commemorate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, the West Pasco Bar Association wants sixth graders in Pasco County to write an essay on Lincoln. ...more

March 13, 2009

Barack Obama has paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln in many ways, from tracing his inaugural path ...more

February 12, 2009

Suddenly Abe Lincoln is hot because ... It's his 200th birthday on Thursday? There's a big screen bio-film in the works starring Liam Neeson? ...more

February 11, 2009

The small, red Bible used to swear in Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama will go on rare public display to mark the 200th anniversary of the 16th president's birth. ...more

February 10, 2009

Since Patrick Buchanan is such a prominent commentator, who is he and what does he stand for? He is largely a Catholic reactionary who has little use for Vatican II. He grew up in Washington, D.C. As a student at Georgetown University, he was expelled for a year in 1960. ...more

January 24, 2009

Next month, Barack Obama will catch a train in Philadelphia and trace the route Abraham Lincoln followed to Washington for his inauguration. ...more

December 28, 2008

This is in reference to Richard Nicks' letter entitled "Democracy For Sale" in the Dec. 17 edition of Hernando Today. He expresses his frustration and that of so many other Americans with the direction the leadership of our country has taken. ...more

December 19, 2008

So much for the wisdom of The People. A new report from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) on the nation's civic literacy finds that most Americans are too ignorant to vote. ...more

November 30, 2008

Can you name all three branches of the U.S. government? Do you know who Susan B. Anthony was? Do you know what rights the First Amendment guarantees? Most American's don't. That's according to a report from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that surveyed about 2,500 randomly selected citizens, asking them 33 basic questions about history, government and economics. ...more

November 24, 2008