The loss of 30 Americans in Afghanistan today in the Wardak province hits us all hard.  Two Shreveport families are hit especially hard.  V...

So ends the last week of summer.  I'm back to work tomorrow - Open House on Sunday at 2:00.  I'm not complaining; the way the econom...

The election map in 2010...   ...is nothing to what it will look like next year.  By 2012 people will be feeling the pain of the downgrad...

I've immersed myself in antiquing activities today in an attempt to avoid the glaring headlines on Memeorandum: That, and yesterday...

This installment will have to be called "Saturday's Found Treasures" through May because this is my last Friday off before sch...

The Dow Jones index has erased its gains for the year : But hey, not everything is on a downward slide;  food stamp use is way up: ...

Here's another reminder for the Cpl. Breck Scott fundraiser which is now winding down.  We're wrapping up our SIGIS fundraiser in a ...

We had a record high of 109 today and everywhere you go people are fussing about the heat.  In truth, a lot of people are just staying home,...

I've finished the chair.  I got a new seat cut at Home Depot but they would only cut a square.  I had to angle it myself.  I finished th...

I've been unable, through a variety of interruptions, to blog anything of political substance today, however, Stacy McCain has not had t...

Here I am all ready to surf today's news when Steve comes in and tells me about an Animal Control truck across the street..."with C...

I've been offline all day.  I decided to try to recover the seat for this chair that I bought from Milly and it turned out to be a bigge...

This has been floating around for 24 hours or so and I've just watched it.  If you haven't, do yourself a favor:

In what must surely be a bit of comic relief, Vanity Fair offers the proposition that all Obama needs to become the Paragon of Hope and Cha...

Eric Holder's DOJ and the Obama administration have filed suit on yet another state for their attempt to control illegal immigration in ...

I expect this sort of thing from Politico . I don't expect a whole hell of a LOT from Joe Biden, but coming from the Vice President of...

In case you've become so consumed by the debt debate and need something else to read about, check out this post from The Heritage Founda...

Seriously?  This is not even "heat index" crap, people.  Ugh. Must be August in Shreveport.  Time to go back to school (in on...

Good manners and chivalry are alive and well in Shreveport/Bossier.  I went to a memorial service this afternoon for the mother of a dear ...

We had a fun day at Second Hand Rose Antiques today; it was my friend Jennifer's birthday and she came over to Milly's with a coupl...

Mike at A Cop's Watch went to visit Cpl. Scott in Houston yesterday.  Please read his report here . Cpl. Scott is recovering from his ...

Politico has gone over the edge.  In the new era of "civility in discourse" Politico is now calling the Tea Party a terrorist grou...