Pull Our Troops From Afghanistan Editor's note: The following is an open letter to President Barack Obama: ...more

March 5, 2009

President Barack Obama sent a secret letter to Russia's president last month suggesting he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, U.S. officials said Monday. ...more

March 3, 2009

I see lots of complaints about different things but few solutions are offered. Here are a few answers that I think would help. First and foremost, the country must have a value-added tax. This would stop a lot of jobs from leaving the country and may even bring some back. Next, cut out all foreign aid. My guess is that 90 percent of it goes into foreign leaders pockets and doesn't do any good. ...more

January 14, 2009

The recent dust up in Georgia followed by the neo-cons immediately urging the admission of Georgia and the Ukraine into NATO membership demonstrates how close we are coming to reigniting the cold war with Russia. ...more

November 30, 2008

There is an old Russian fable, with different versions in other countries, about two poor peasants, Ivan and Boris. The only difference between them was that Boris had a goat and Ivan didn't. One day, Ivan came upon a strange-looking lamp and, when he rubbed it, a genie appeared. She told him that she could grant him just one wish, but it could be anything in the world. ...more

November 28, 2008

In the beginning, there was a boy, a girl and an apple. He was a teenager in a concentration camp in Nazi-controlled Germany. She was a bit younger, living free in the village, her family posing as Christians. Their eyes met through a barbed-wire fence and she wondered what she could do for this handsome young man. ...more

October 13, 2008

After years of professing their parents' innocence, the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are acknowledging that their father was a spy. ...more

September 18, 2008

Russian commanders said Wednesday that they were growing alarmed at the number of NATO warships sailing into the Black Sea, saying NATO vessels now outnumbered the ships in their fleet anchored off the western coast of Georgia. ...more

August 28, 2008

When it was done, Hugh McCutcheon didn't have to tell his wife his U.S. men's volleyball team had beaten the odds - and overcome tragedy - to win the Olympic gold medal. ...more

August 25, 2008

Georgia's president grudgingly signed a potential truce with Russia on Friday, even as he denounced the Russians as invading barbarians and accused the West of all but encouraging them to overrun his country. A stone-faced Condoleezza Rice, standing alongside, said Russian troops must withdraw immediately from their smaller neighbor. ...more

August 16, 2008