Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009), in which Washington borrowed $862 billion on American taxpayers credit.

The American political system is nicely balanced so that certain foul deeds like throwing poor women off the welfare rolls, or cutting old peoples pensions are handed off to Democrats, who put on a better act, tears streaming down their faces as they protest that they must kill in order to be kind.

Four out of seven Forsyth County commissioners voted Monday to press forward with an appeal of a federal judges ruling that sectarian prayer at the opening of their meetings violates the First Amendment. Prior to the vote, commissioners heard from 10 citizens during a public hearing.

We all wish former President Bill Clinton a quick recovery from the medical procedure in which two stents were inserted in by Chuck a single artery. Norris That, following columnist his 2004 quadruple bypass, when four arteries were 90 percent clogged.

Fifty years ago this month, history took a great leap forward. On Feb. 1, 1960, four black students from Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down at a segregated lunch counter in Woolworths department store in Greensboro. The chairs were for whites.

The proposed Land Development Ordinance is meant to streamline rezoning and modernize Greensboro with a measured increase in urban density, maintaining a tree canopy, giving public transit and pedestrians a nudge of support and better connecting streets.

I got in my truck for the ritual Sunday errands. The drive to the Laundromat seemed like any other at the end of the weekend, even with ice melting on the streets. I was thinking about writing this column on the joys of a recent snowboarding trip, or the whimsical eccentricities of morality as proffered by action movies.

The Bibles had a rough time of it these past 40 years. In 1967 came Lynn White Jr.s famous essay The Historic Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, denouncing Gods okay to Adam on planetary pillage in Genesis: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion.

Justin Bieber is a 15-year-old teen idol and singing sensation. The pop star was one of the presenters at the 2010 Grammy Awards by Chuck and one of the 74 Norris music superstars columnist who remade the 25-year-old song We Are the World, and he just helped kick off the weekend events for the Super Bowl. MTV calls Justin one of the two biggest names in the pop-culture universe at the moment.

Snow is falling as we drive into Park City. Could it be any more perfect? read the opening lines of my Sundance 2010 journal. Much to my chagrin, its the only line entered into the journal that was supposed to chronicle my eighth year working on what is widely considered Americas most prestigious film festival.