AUSTIN - America voted and Barack Obama, the junior Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois, was elected the 44th president of the United States on Nov. 4. More...
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: More...
A perfect storm occurs when the major elements of weather - humidity, temperature and in the case of hurricanes barometric pressure - reach critical levels and come into alignment in a given location. Its power can be awesome. More...