The James Logan Courier

By Michael Goodwin
New York Daily News (MCT)

High school football is all the rage. Teams are ranked nationally like college and professional ones. ESPN and Fox Sports Net are televising games across the country and more teams are traveling for out-of-state games. McDonald's and Nike are among the corporate sponsors. Then there's "Friday Night Lights," an NBC prime-time show about a Texas team that spins out of the book and film of the same name.

By Michael Goodwin
New York Daily News (MCT)

For months, the Iraq war has been reduced to a stark choice: Baghdad or bust. Either the U.S. and Iraqi forces would pacify the capital, or the mission would unravel.

It is time to face the awful truth. Each day is bringing us closer to bust than to victory. We are witnessing the tipping point.


U.S. Army Soldiers from various units prepare their equipment at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, for redeployment into Iraq Oct. 24, 2006. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Steve Cline, U.S. Air Force. (Released)

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

For students too bored, too busy or too burdened to write their own term papers, it's tempting to turn to the Web for a little help.

As teachers wise up to the popular cut-and-paste method of Internet plagiarizing and the use of myriad online essay banks, some students determined to outsource their papers are taking a more unusual route: paying for custom jobs.

Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and the most influential proponent of the "Single Tax" on land. He is the author of Progress and Poverty, written in 1879.

Read Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy by Henry George, free from the Library of Economics and Liberty.


Henry George