Six years after the United States invaded Iraq, the end of America's costly mission is in sight, but the future of this tortured country is much less clear. ...more

March 20, 2009

The U.S. military announced Sunday that 12,000 U.S. soldiers would withdraw from Iraq by September, marking the first step in the Obama administration's plan to pull U.S. combat forces out of the country by August 2010. ...more

March 9, 2009

The Mullet. Gimmick. Hollywood slickster. ...more

June 25, 2008

TAMPA - The mullet. Gimmick. Hollywood slickster. As it became obvious Barry Melrose would be the Lightning's new coach, many fans were not pleased with the decision to hire someone who has not been behind the bench in 13 years. We know this because those people have access to e-mail, message boards and telephones. Some of them have interesting vocabularies. ...more

June 24, 2008

Last week I introduced my readers to what I referred to as "ring rage" that I defined as "how one feels when that little tab on the top of a can separates from the top before the top separates from the can and it takes a pair of pliers to get the top off and juice is spilled all over you in the process." Rage is violent and uncontrollable anger. It goes beyond "What's bothering you?" or pet peeves, which usually invoke such responses as the rolling of one's eyes or audible tsking. But for the sake of this article we'll consider more drastic reactions to certain stimuli as "rages," which hopefully will not progress farther than being imaginary reactions. ...more

January 12, 2008

PORTAGE, WIS. - Candice Clark rages like an angry child as she leans into a video monitor in the Columbia County Jail. "I'm not a murderer," the inmate in orange snarls into the telephone. ...more

December 1, 2007

Security for the nation's pipelines was highlighted by this week's major ammonia leak on U.S. 301. A U.S. congressman and a Florida state senator are after answers and accountability. ...more

November 15, 2007

If you want to find out about hiring trends and how HR decision-makers are finding candidates, plug into the human resources Web sites. ...more

November 11, 2007