Welcome to the Best of Blogs column, a sampling of the variety of Web log entries you can enjoy every day on the El Paso Times Web site.

It's Thanksgiving, that cherished time of year when Canadians from coast to coast show how grateful they are for life's blessings by gathering around a dinner table with their relatives and then beating them senseless with large decorative containers of

With a more than $5,000 Chiesman grant, students at Black Hills State University look at whether newspaper web site blogs involve people in and teach them about politics.

Democrat Barack Obama mixed presidential politics with parades and barbecue on U.S. Independence Day on Friday, celebrating his daughter's birthday with a picnic and fireworks in Montana.

The next president is fed up with college football computer rankings, or so he said when the world weighed less. It is doubtful that Barack Obama now will get around to who's No. 1, except as it applies to the U.S. of A. Let us hope so, in any case.