Excerpts from a recent editorial in newspaper in the United States: The New York Post, on President Obama and Iran: ...more

November 24, 2009

Local shelters and pantries can stock up on groceries now that the federal government is dishing out five times more money this year. ...more

February 11, 2009

Joan Atkins of Palm Harbor says President Barack Obama runs the risk of being an ineffective commander-in-chief because of his early national defense and security moves. ...more

February 7, 2009

The sweet-tooth fairy left me a longtime seasonal favorite in my stocking this year - chocolate-covered cherries. By New Year's Eve, I had easily polished off the box. Not exactly nourishing, but geez, it was sure fun. ...more

January 14, 2009

As bank-to-bank lending rates gradually slide lower, the credit climate is looking a bit brighter - at least for stronger companies. ...more

October 21, 2008

Government brokers responsible for collecting billions of dollars in federal oil royalties operated in a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" that included having sex with energy company employees, accepting lavish gifts and rigging contracts to favored firms, investigators said Wednesday. ...more

September 11, 2008

Fifteen years after it was signed, an agreement between the United States and Russia to convert "megatons into megawatts" has done enormous good: More than 325 metric tons of highly enriched uranium from Russian nuclear warheads have been diluted into low-enriched uranium and used as fuel in U.S. nuclear power plants to produce electricity for American homes, business and industry. ...more

July 20, 2008

The Bush administration said Tuesday that a 15 percent reduction will be made in the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons, taking the overall inventory down to less than a quarter of its size at the end of the Cold War in 1991. ...more

December 19, 2007

Regarding Pat Buchanan's column headlined "National Interest Comes First." In the Nov. 24 column, where he quoted Condi Rice,"for 60 years my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in the Middle East region and we achieved neither. Now we are taking a different course. We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people." This is high fallutin' horse patootie. Closer to the truth in the Middle East is Pat's observation that "anti-Americanism there is pandemic." ...more

November 29, 2007

North Korea is providing evidence to the United States aimed at proving it never intended to produce highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons, undermining a key U.S. intelligence finding, South Korean and U.S. officials said this week. ...more

November 10, 2007