Take a gander at this week’s juicy high school football matchups, and Friday night’s winners would be in line to ultimately rise to the top.

Each Saturday, hundreds of car and motorcycle owners converge on the parking lot of the “rock ’n’ roll” McDonald’s at the Scottsdale Pavilions shopping center to display their rides.

Each Saturday, hundreds of car and motorcycle owners converge on the parking lot of the “rock ’n’ roll” McDonald’s at the Scottsdale Pavilions shopping center to display their rides.

American industry is tarred and feathered for legally “exporting American jobs” to foreign workers while the U.S. Government is praised for supporting the illegal importation of thirty million foreign workers who displace American workers within the USA. Where is the logic in this? When the cost to the American tax-payers is added to provide emergency health care and education for the foreign worker’s families, the comparison becomes even more bizarre.

There's seems to be a video Web site these days for just about every interest or passion, no matter how obscure or mind-numbingly dull.

Too many smokers, who would look down their noses at anyone tossing a soda cup or burger wrapper from a moving car, think nothing of tossing their cigarette butts on the ground.

We’re with conservative lawmakers 100 percent when they rightly point out that one-size-fits-all doesn’t work in education, and that school choice gives parents the options they need and deserve.

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The "October surprise" is a term first widely used in the 1980 presidential election, but in American politics today it has come to mean any last-minute, carefully dropped bombshell of controversy designed to change voters’ minds just before they head for the polls.

The final shape of legislation that would help Medicare beneficiaries with their drug bills probably won’t be known until fall. But an interesting situation is developing. It appears seniors won’t be happy with whatever comes out of a House-Senate conference committee.

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“A Good Day to Die Hard” marks the fifth entry to the “Die Hard” franchise and the third film to come out in the last two months about an ass kicking senior citizen. The original “Die Hard” is a definitive action picture that can still make audiences cheer even after multiple viewings. Whether you love or hate “Die Hard 2” and “Die Hard with a Vengeance,” pretty much everyone can agree that John McClane made a welcome return in the sensational “Live Free or Die Hard” a few years ago. The previous “Die Hard” got just about everything right from the absurdly insane stunts, to the humorous dialog, to Bruce Willis’ committed performance. “A Good Day to Die Hard” has just enough fun moments for die-hard fans to take a gander. Regrettably, it remains the least impressive outing of this series.

Take a gander at this week’s juicy high school football matchups, and Friday night’s winners would be in line to ultimately rise to the top.

Thanks to vote-by-mail, we now enjoy the formerly “last-minute hit piece” often weeks ahead of Election Day. And, despite scads of faux outrage by my counterpart hacks on the GOP side, I do mean “enjoy.” Negative campaigning is like a freeway car wreck; we say we deplore it, but just try to stop us from rubbernecking.

Certain 'wingers can't criticize Hillary Clinton for arguing that Michigan voters who picked "undecided" should get counted for her, because they're trying the same tactic here in Arizona.

If anyone still believes the changing of the guard in Congress will curtail the annual raids on ye ol’ pork barrel, or end the practice of earmarking special expenditures for the home district or state, they didn’t read a recent story in The New York Times headlined, “As Power Shifts in New Congress, Pork May Linger.” The headline writer erred in using the qualifier “may,” when a more definitive “will” would have been better.

Art is no longer just for stuffy museums and pretentious galleries.

Art is no longer just for stuffy museums and pretentious galleries.

In a one-game playoff in 1951, New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson belted a game-winning two-run home run in the ninth inning off the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Ralph Branca that sent the Giants to the World Series.

After the post-strike refueling, our flight plan was basically to take us back the way we had arrived. Here is where the flight got interesting — and a bit scary.

After the post-strike refueling, our flight plan was basically to take us back the way we had arrived. Here is where the flight got interesting — and a bit scary.

After the post-strike refueling, our flight plan was basically to take us back the way we had arrived. Here is where the flight got interesting — and a bit scary.