Gathering strength, Sen. Barack Obama collected a key labor endorsement and coaxed away one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's delegates Friday, at the same time he criticized his rival for supporting legislation harmful to workers. ...more

February 16, 2008

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to endorse John McCain today, giving a boost to the Republican presidential front-runner days before California's high-prize primary. ...more

January 31, 2008

Hours after Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain for president, the two stood outside First Watch restaurant in Tampa on Sunday and shook hands with customers. Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpe joined them. Crist again denied that he had reached any agreement with McCain on a possible running mate spot or a national hurricane catastrophe fund in exchange for the endorsement. ...more

January 28, 2008

Fred D. Thompson, the former senator from Tennessee, dropped out of the Republican race for president Tuesday after a third-place primary showing Saturday in South Carolina, a state he had hoped to win when he entered the race riding a wave of optimism among conservatives looking for a strong general election candidate. ...more

January 23, 2008

John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, gave Barack Obama a timely endorsement Thursday, snubbing Hillary Rodham Clinton as well as his own vice presidential running mate. ...more

January 11, 2008

Mr. Gulledge had his facts wrong as several letter writers pointed out. Not to gang up on him, but he also offered an opinion that he may wish to reconsider. He opined that Oprah Winfrey endorsed Sen. Obama because both are black. With that line of thinking, her endorsement of Sen. Clinton, likely her second choice, would have been because both are women. ...more

January 1, 2008

Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" on Wednesday for imposing stability that restored Russia as a world power. ...more

December 20, 2007

The will of the people is being violated by many organizations, churches, unions,. Unions were organized to represent "we the people," but if you look how the wage scale has remained low for the last 50 years, and how many of our largest unions represent and promote foreign nationals, creating huge numbers of people for each and every job, forcing wage scales down. The AF of C, Teamsters, United Auto Workers, United Aircraft Workers are just a few. Many of these unions have corporations sitting on both sides of the negotiating table on all contracts. This was made illegal many years ago, in the 75th Congress, where the Pinkerton Detective Agency had infiltrated the leadership of many unions for corporations, so as to control unions. ...more

December 1, 2007

Some users of the online hangout Facebook are complaining that its two-week-old marketing program is publicizing their purchases for friends to see. ...more

November 22, 2007

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the endorsement Friday of Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a hero of the civil rights struggle, in a blow to Barack Obama in the battle for black support for the Democratic presidential nomination. ...more

October 13, 2007