Perhaps it was all the hoopla about the historic nature of Barack Obama's presidency. Maybe the hype of election night and all that talk about wishing our first black president well actually made us all believe, for just a fleeting moment in time, that things would not be as bad as we feared they would be. ...more

February 12, 2009

Fred Palensar of Holiday offers Jesus as the solution to the violence in the Middle East. ...more

January 24, 2009

Local drivers don't need statistics to tell them that the intersection of U.S. 19 and Ridge Road is a daily focal point of rush-hour bedlam. ...more

January 2, 2009

Saudi Arabia, the Arab League and the Palestinian Authority president urged the U.N. Security Council on Friday to save the Middle East peace process by demanding an end to Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory. ...more

September 27, 2008

HBO's "The Wire," which opened its fifth season Sunday, has gotten little recognition in Tinseltown. Executive producer David Simon says that's fine with him. ...more

January 7, 2008

Arab holdout Syria agreed Sunday to attend a Mideast peace conference called by President Bush to restart talks to resolve the six-decade conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, yet expectations for the summit remained low. The two sides came to Washington without agreeing on basic terms for their negotiations. ...more

November 26, 2007

Deaf Idiot Regarding "Blind Hypocrisy" (Letters, Nov. 1): Daniel Quinn compares the state of Israel's right to exist with Iran's right to develop and possess a nuclear weapon? ...more

November 3, 2007