It's time to fight for personal peace. We begin 2010 as far from world peace as ever in history. Celebrating the Prince of Peace at the end of 2009 fades as we recover from last night's welcome to the new year. We are a resolution-making people, who laugh and cry when at every year's end we admit resolution breaking. ...more

January 1, 2010

So, what's next for Valrico's young humanitarian? The Nobel Peace Prize? ...more

December 23, 2009

Rationale for war Within President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, I heard more rationale for war than plans for peace. ...more

December 11, 2009

President Barack Obama entered the pantheon of Nobel Peace Prize winners Thursday with humble words, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defense of war and promising to use the prestigious award to "reach for the world that ought to be." ...more

December 10, 2009

Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit, insisting America is ready to tackle global warming despite intense disagreement in Congress. ...more

November 25, 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

A major pact within tantalizing reach, President Barack Obama aims to nudge forward an arms-control deal in talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. ...more

November 15, 2009

A big hit Although Derek Jeter doesn't want his house to be seen, Austin DeFraties' costume will definitely grab people's attention. He is dressed as the Yankees captain with a privacy fence. A Yankees cap and shirt and a $2 plastic fence, and you are sure to be a hit on Halloween. ...more

October 31, 2009

Give blood On All Hallow's Eve, where can a vampire get the most blood for his buck? At Florida Blood Services, of course. ...more

October 30, 2009

One professor called it spiteful. Another said it was far-fetched. Those were the reactions Wednesday to U.S Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's request that President Barack Obama get the permission of Congress before he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize. ...more

October 29, 2009