Prepare for the advent of Barack Obama, neocon. On the Afghan War, he is throwing in with the lying, warmongering running dogs of neoconservatism by ordering a surge of some 30,000 troops. Obama has to become a president of victory even though he hails from a party of defeat. The responsibilities of office separate him from a political base that only sounded stalwart on the Afghan War so long as it was a handy political tool with which to beat George W. Bush about the head and shoulders. ...more

December 5, 2009

Afghanistan's president says he's willing to talk with the Taliban chief in a bid to bring peace to the country. ...more

December 3, 2009

A traveler asks a farmer how to get to a particular village. The farmer replies, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here." ...more

December 3, 2009

Failure in Afghanistan would mean a Taliban takeover of the country and "have severe consequences for the United States and the world," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday as the Obama administration set out to sell its new war strategy on Capitol Hill. ...more

December 2, 2009

Let everyone stay mindful that the Rev. Al Sharpton throughout the primaries of President Barack Obama was a supporter of Hillary Clinton. ...more

November 22, 2009

I am amazed so many people are blaming U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite for the debacle that passes for universal health care that the House of Representatives passed on a very narrow vote. ...more

November 21, 2009

Before starting college in 2008, my sister, Ti-Anna, spent a year in Washington advocating for our father, Wang Bingzhang, a political prisoner in China. She accomplished a great deal: She met influential politicians and policymakers and even had an op-ed published in January. ...more

November 17, 2009

Union bashing This is in response to Donald Smith ("Union negotiations," Letters, Oct. 31). ...more

November 4, 2009

First lady Michelle Obama is now part of the "Female Force," a series of biographical comic books illustrated by a South Florida artist. ...more

March 5, 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week will make her first foray into Middle East diplomacy, attending a high-level conference on humanitarian assistance to Gaza and making the rounds of Israeli and Palestinian officials, at a time when a growing chorus of voices on both the right and left say the peace process needs a dramatically new approach. ...more

March 1, 2009