Joan Atkins of Palm Harbor says President Barack Obama is not a good steward of the nation's defense and foreign policies. ...more

April 29, 2009

President Barack Obama will travel to Moscow in July, part of what he and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, are calling a fresh start in strained relations between the powers. ...more

April 2, 2009

The United States and Russia set a newly ambitious course for global cooperation Wednesday as presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev ordered negotiators into immediate action on a treaty to further reduce nuclear weapons. ...more

April 1, 2009

A large chemical plume that sits beneath the Young-Rainey Star Center building on Belcher Road has spread to nearby properties, including areas around a day care center. ...more

March 26, 2009

A large chemical plume that sits beneath the Young-Rainey Star Center building on Belcher Road has spread to nearby properties, including areas around a daycare center. ...more

March 25, 2009

Iran played down President Barack Obama's new video message to the Iranian people on Friday, saying it welcomed the overtures but warned that decades of mistrust can't easily be erased. ...more

March 20, 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talked tough on her first overseas trip as America's top diplomat, delivering a sharp warning to North Korea on Tuesday over its threat to conduct a missile test. ...more

February 18, 2009

After apparently suffering a stroke last summer, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il seems to want to get President Barack Obama's attention — and fast. ...more

February 14, 2009

Joan Atkins of Palm Harbor says President Barack Obama runs the risk of being an ineffective commander-in-chief because of his early national defense and security moves. ...more

February 7, 2009

On that awful evening of September 11, 2001, my gaze alternating between my television screen and my computer screen, I wrote a column called "Now We Know How Israel Feels." In that piece, I retold the true story of Ken Rex McElroy of Skidmore, Mo., a local bully who terrorized an entire rural county until, after years of abuse, theft, rape and attempted murder, a handful of Skidmore citizens shot him to death on Main Street in broad daylight. Recently, like those citizens in Skidmore, the nation of Israel had had enough. ...more

January 7, 2009