President Barack Obama entered the pantheon of Nobel Peace Prize winners Thursday with humble words, acknowledging his own few accomplishments while delivering a robust defense of war and promising to use the prestigious award to "reach for the world that ought to be." ...more

December 10, 2009

The editorial board at the Highlands Today has the satirical sense of humor of the publishers of "The Onion." We have recently been treated to great pearls. There was the fellow who put Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann in the same scary category as terrorist groups Al Qaida and Hamas. ...more

April 16, 2009

President Barack Obama's top envoy to Afghanistan declared Sunday that Iran should play a vital role helping stabilize the war-torn country. It was the latest statement by Obama officials signaling a clear shift away from the Bush administration's policy of avoiding direct engagement with Tehran. ...more

February 16, 2009

Poland promised Monday to issue international arrest warrants for Taliban militants after the apparent beheading of a Polish engineer in Pakistan, and officials charged that elements within the Pakistan government share blame for the killing. ...more

February 10, 2009

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

Pakistan angrily condemned a raid on a village that killed at least 15 people Wednesday, claiming U.S.-led troops flew in from Afghanistan for the first known foreign ground assault against a suspected Taliban haven in this country's wild tribal belt. ...more

September 4, 2008

This past Thursday we were once again subjected to another painful column by Frances Earl, who has shown that she doesn't know what she is talking about. ...more

August 2, 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

President Bush and top administration officials repeatedly exaggerated what they knew about Iraq's weapons and its ties to terrorist groups as the White House pressed its case for war against Iraq, the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday in a long-awaited report. ...more

June 6, 2008

Iraqi journalists and international advocacy groups warned Tuesday that prosecuting an Associated Press photographer held for more than 19 months without charge is a worrisome precedent that threatens media freedom in the region. ...more

November 21, 2007