A few weeks back, during the celebration of the "discovery" of the new world by Christopher Columbus, there was a lot of controversial comments made about what he discovered and what kind of man he really was. And it was said that there were teachers who were telling their young charges the truth about the man whose accomplishment we recognize each October. ...more

November 7, 2009

A former University of Tampa student accused of trying to sneak a large knife onto a commercial flight has pleaded guilty to entering an airport area in violation of security requirements. ...more

October 13, 2009

On his first trip to the Middle East, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's message this week will be similar to the one he delivered to Chinese officials a month ago: your investments in the United States are safe. ...more

July 13, 2009

From spring-loaded high heels to a watch that shoots pepper spray, there was no shortage of ideas at the world's largest inventors' convention Wednesday despite a global economic downturn and fewer potential customers. ...more

April 2, 2009

Before her wedding last year, Huda Batterjee went abroad to buy her bridal lingerie - she just couldn't bear the humiliation of discussing her most intimate apparel with a man. She had little choice: there are almost no saleswomen in Saudi Arabia. Now a group of Saudi women - sick of having to deal with male sales staff when buying bras or panties, not to mention frilly negligees or thongs - have launched a campaign this week to boycott lingerie stores until they employ women. ...more

March 25, 2009

The newspaper has been the informational conduit in our lives since the beginning of the United States of America. In our nation's infancy, the newspaper was small - as small as one side of one page, but what a colossal impact such a small print space had on the development and preservation of this nation. ...more

March 25, 2009

Never let it be said that America isn't a country of remarkable openness. You can go directly from effectively working for the Saudis and Chinese to the country's top intelligence analyst. Only in the land of opportunity. ...more

March 11, 2009

OPEC on Wednesday agreed to slash 2.2 million barrels from its daily production - its single largest cut ever - while bloc outsiders Russia and Azerbaijan announced their own cutbacks of hundreds of thousands of barrels from the market. ...more

December 18, 2008

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Saturday delayed a decision on whether to cut the cartel's oil output, but demand that is falling in the United States and unexpectedly weak in China makes it likely that the group will lower production at its Dec. 17 meeting in Algeria, analysts and OPEC ministers said. ...more

November 30, 2008

The State Department's list of "state sponsors of terrorism" is one of the biggest farces of U.S. foreign policy. Started in 1979 for nations designated by the Secretary of State "to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism," the rationale behind the list is far from any high moral purpose to rid the world of terrorism. ...more

November 17, 2008