HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Dave Comroe stepped to the firing line, raised his 12-gauge Browning over and under shotgun, aimed and fired.

Jared Lee Loughner must have known he was a nobody. He had been a decent sax player in the Marana High School band, had done okay in a garage band that went nowhere, and after beginning to smoke pot then dropped out of high school.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Spring training got underway this past week with those four magical words every baseball fan loves to hear: "pitchers and catchers report." I love baseball's tenacity against the weather.

Being old-fashioned and terrified of needles, I approach all surgery with trepidation.

You would have thought I was a lunatic, the way I went walking down the street shouting into the air that Jesse Jackson was running for President.

The Schuylkill County, Pa., justice system managed to do something that insurance actuaries do with mixed results - it has determined not only the penalty for threats to a human life, but also the value of a human life.