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90 year olds marry after 40 years of friendshipUpdated: Dec 29, 2011 12:13 PM EST Charleston, SC (AP) - A 91-year-old newlywed says she expects to spend a dozen more years with her 92-year-old spouse following their wedding at a retirement home on James Island. According to media reports, Margaret McSpadden and retired Air Force Col. William Thomas married Wednesday at Bishop Gadsden. Thomas is a World War II veteran and was President Dwight Eisenhower's personal pilot. He celebrates his 92nd birthday Thursday. McSpadden owned an antique store in Charleston.

Embracing Stupidity? by Norma Zager “Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don’t do anything special to avoid it …” George C. Williams Despite Oprah’s valiant efforts to awaken us to our inner better selves, the non-stop parade of self help books that produce step by step instructions and a map for locating our inner good, we race headlong into stupidity like an out of control Formula One driver toward a wall. Aside from the tragic loss of dead trees these tomes have created, they have failed to inspire any worthwhile change in man’s hatred or a...

At a time when there seems to be a lack of heroes, especially in the Presidency during the last decades, the biography of Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower is a reminder of the pride Americans felt for the General, the man and the country.