The Gaza Strip's ruling Hamas militant group said Tuesday that it has reached a cease-fire with Israel meant to halt a cycle of deadly Palestinian rocket attacks that rained hundreds of rockets on Israel in the past year and Israeli reprisals that have killed hundreds of Palestinians. ...more

June 18, 2008

Sen. John McCain is being unfairly ridiculed for wanting to fight the Iraq war for 100 more years. Fighting beyond 2100 is a frightening prospect and it's based on something he did say. But the accusation is an audacious exaggeration. ...more

May 25, 2008

No other country puts as much emphasis on "freedom" as the United States. Patrick Henry demanded "liberty or death." The national anthem calls America "the land of the free." Great reformers from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King have urged America to live up to its ideal of "freedom." When a group of French Americanophiles wanted to flatter the United States, they sent the Statue of Liberty. ...more

May 18, 2008

BARTOW - Margie Conner is out of the shack and back on the bus. But she's still not driving. ...more

November 21, 2007

Soldiers, Not Guards Regarding 'the Perils Of Privatizing Security' (Our Opinion, Oct. 5): ...more

October 12, 2007