The owner and patrons of the Wild Turkey have come out from under their white hoods to associate themselveswith the Highlands County Republican Party.They useRepublican talking points and I seriously doubt that you will see Andy Tuck or any other Republican party leader openly criticizing them. It is really a shame that the Highlands County Republican Party hasallowedtheir party to be associatedwith hatemongers.That is not the Party of Lincoln. ...more

September 26, 2009

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist stuck strongly to his alliance with President Barack Obama over the federal stimulus package - an alliance that has angered many Florida Republicans - in a nationally televised debate with Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana Sunday. ...more

February 22, 2009

China celebrated its increasing prosperity Thursday in marking the launch of a free-market revolution 30 years ago. President and Communist Party leader Hu Jintao urged more economic reform while vowing it would not lead to Western-style democracy. Hu entered the Great Hall of the People at the head of a line of China's top communist leaders - more than 6,000 party leaders and military officials who politely applauded throughout his remarks. Economic reforms have made China the fourth-largest economy in the world, but they have not led to a loosening of its authoritarian system. ...more

December 19, 2008

It strikes some voters as peculiar, even wrong, that it is possible for a president to be elected with fewer total votes than the closest rival. ...more

June 28, 2008

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's abrupt announcement on Wednesday afternoon that he would resign upset what was to have been an orderly end to the nationalist leader's scandal- and gaffe-prone government. The resignation threw Japan's tense political situation into further disarray. ...more

September 13, 2007