In the beginning, the Obama administration directed a spotlight toward its careful, thoughtful decision-making process on Afghanistan. National security meetings were announced, photographed and highlighted in background briefings to the media. President Obama would apply the methods of the academy to the art of war - the University of Chicago meets West Point - thus assuring a skittish public that deliberation had preceded decision. ...more

November 20, 2009

Joan Atkins of Palm Harbor says President Barack Obama is not a good steward of the nation's defense and foreign policies. ...more

April 29, 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

For one hour of peak driving time each and every Friday morning, car horns are blaring every few seconds as they pass through the intersection. But it isn't because of some inexplicable convergence of bad drivers at the same time every week. Rather, passing motorists are responding to a now-familiar sight: a large hand-written sign inviting them to "Honk for Peace," flanked by a group waving their hands, flags and other signs. ...more

December 27, 2008

Russia's military offensive into Georgia has jolted the Bush administration's relationship with Moscow, senior officials said on Thursday, forcing a wholesale reassessment of American dealings with Russia and jeopardizing talks on everything from halting Iran's nuclear ambitions to reducing strategic arsenals to cooperation on missile defenses. ...more

August 15, 2008

Now that new leadership has been identified for the Air Force, is the service's twisting-in-the-wind experience as a result of the mishandling of nuclear and nuclear-related materials over? ...more

June 22, 2008

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida has joined at least two other Washington lawmakers requesting a full accounting into whether the reported rapes of American contractors in Iraq are being adequately investigated. ...more

December 15, 2007

Congress left for its Thanksgiving recess Friday without passing a bill to pay for the war in Iraq after the Senate deadlocked over a Democratic demand that the measure include a call for most troops to be withdrawn by the end of next year. ...more

November 17, 2007

U.S. defense officials have signaled that up-to-date attack plans are available if needed in the escalating crisis over Iran's nuclear aims, although no strike appears imminent. ...more

November 9, 2007

All State Department security convoys in Iraq now will be under military control, the latest step taken by government officials to bring Blackwater Worldwide and other armed contractors under tighter supervision. ...more

October 31, 2007