While foreign diplomats hope upcoming elections willchangethingsin Afghanistan, many Afghans are voting with their feet. ...more

July 6, 2009

It Pays To Be Nice The primary was barely over when I had to pack my bags to go to the convention. ...more

September 14, 2008

Concern over upcoming elections and widening tensions among Iraq's religious and ethnic groups appear to be the reasons for the U.S. military's recommendation to put the brakes on withdrawing more American troops from Iraq despite improvements in security. ...more

September 6, 2008

"In life there is good and bad" was the headline of your Monday editorial. Yes there is; one thing that is very bad is a small conservative town misrepresented by the embarrassingly prejudiced scribbling of a very liberal local editor. In an editorial printed by another paper and printed in Highlands Today, saying it's hard for see how the new workplace law allowing firearms in locked vehicles owned by concealed firearm permit holders could pass, clearly shows alliance with anti-second amendment partisans whose claims and views have been consistently disproved by statistics and recently debunked by the Supreme Court. ...more

July 10, 2008

To the readers and voters of Highlands County: There has been much attention from politicians and the good ole boys recently, regarding the 33 misplaced items within the sheriff's office. Well, my concern is for the 33 percent of our young veterans coming home, either dead or diseased from Iraq; the billions of dollars misspent, no sufficient armor, no safe drinking water, missing uranium, plutonium, weapons and computers. ...more

May 5, 2008

Pakistan's premier military intelligence agency has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s, and is suffering the violent blowback of that policy, two former senior intelligence officials and other officials close to the agency say. ...more

January 15, 2008

Tom O'Neill took the reins of this west Pasco County municipality less than a month ago, and since then, he's earned good grades from his colleagues. ...more

January 10, 2008

In his two turns as prime minister in the 1990s, Nawaz Sharif tried to endear himself to Pakistan's people with populist policies and did little to please the United States and other foreign allies. He might yet get the chance to repeat that role. ...more

January 2, 2008

PAKISTAN - Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son was chosen Sunday to succeed her as chairman of her opposition party, while her husband will serve as co-chairman, extending Pakistan's most famous political dynasty to a third generation, party officials said. ...more

December 30, 2007

We give thanks to God before our meals. We start all of our public and private meetings asking God for wisdom and guidance. Yet we won't allow God into our schools. Where do our children learn good from bad and right from wrong; all the things that shape their lives for the future. They say that 62 percent of Americans think it is okay to give out birth control devices in schools and instructions on how to use them. God would not approve, so we don't let him into our schools. We allow subjects to be taught from books that we would not allow in our homes. But a Bible is not one of the books that is used to teach our children, good from bad. ...more

November 25, 2007