Oy Country Store!

Style guide dependent. MLA and CMoS, not allowed. AP, allowed. Edge cases (plurals of surnames ending s) can be ambiguous with AP.

The latter. It’s a last name which happens to end in s, not a plural.

The republicans in congress are not only feckless and complicit, they are suicidally shortsighted: eventually, it’s their houses too.

Rare? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

Apparently, Mo Dowd begs to differ.

I can’t believe that in this day and age, tiny testicled men are still tromping around in the wilds of Africa playing at being some kind of Commander McBragg.

The further north you go in the crape myrtle’s range, the smaller and more manageable they get. Up here in Jersey, on the northern edge of their range, they’re ornamental bushes or very small trees. In the deep south, they’re full-sized trees and are messier.

As John Stewart so archly pointed out, no one, not even Rupert Murdoch, will ever successfully appease the Orange Ordure. TLDR: They will not get what they want.