Are the rights of tax-paying, responsible American citizens and their economic wellbeing compromized to a critical extent while our federal government is supposedly trying to make life better for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan? Do you sometimes feel as if you come in second or even third at this point in time in your government's priorities?...

What are your thoughts on Halloween? Should there be some type unofficial limit, whatever unofficial even means, on what age a person becomes too old to go door-to-door with bag in hand trick-or-treating? Does it bother you when you open your door looking for small kids and find someone six feet tall with a mask over their face?...

On Thursday, Aug. 27, I asked in this blog if you thought the Titans were ready for regular season play. At that time, the Titans had two pre-season games remaining before opening regular season play at Pittsburgh. They had looked sloppy in previous pre-season gsms...

During the time I covered the sports and police beat for the Times-Gazette, many nights, and sometimes days, I'd hear things really begin to get erratic at best and downright crazy at worst over the police scanner on my desk or else get called to come take photos...

How would you feel about anyone who has been convicted at least three times for DUI being required to have yellow reflective tape on the front and rear bumpers of their vehicle with the wording DUI Offender? Or perhaps those drivers with even worse records being required to have red reflective tape with the wording Danderous Driver?...

Today, Tuesday, Sept. 22, is the first day of autumn. We can see a little tinge of color in some trees, the grass isn't growing as rapidly and the weeds seem to be thriving. Based on my admittedly unscientific research, I think we will have our first frost on Oct. 29 and our first snowfall on one inch or more on Jan. 14, 2010...

I've always thought American's greatest strength is the American people. We're all tired of some of the ridiculous actions of our federal government squandering our tax dollars, giving huge amounts of money to save some businesses only to have them use large amounts of that money to give huge bonuses to the top dogs that got such businesses in trouble in the first place and leading us into bankruptcy...

What type driver do you dislike driving near most of all? I suppose we're all concerned with speeding drivers using cell phones and take extra precautions around them. Something I've noticed recently is an increasing number of drivers who apparently think turn signals are there for decoration purposes...

I watched President Obama's speech to congress and was turned off before he ever said a word. All of that ridiculous pomp and pageantry at the very beginning just screamed out at me. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led off the cabinet members parading in by walking down the aisle with a big smile on her face and hugging everyone with the exception of Bo, the presidential dog. She reminded me of Paula Abdul during her days on American Idol...