Prepare for the advent of Barack Obama, neocon. On the Afghan War, he is throwing in with the lying, warmongering running dogs of neoconservatism by ordering a surge of some 30,000 troops. Obama has to become a president of victory even though he hails from a party of defeat. The responsibilities of office separate him from a political base that only sounded stalwart on the Afghan War so long as it was a handy political tool with which to beat George W. Bush about the head and shoulders. ...more

December 5, 2009

Tonight was supposed to be the night. Tonight, in front of a crowd gathered at a $200-a-plate fundraiser for the Pediatric Cancer Foundation, Darcy Leillani Enrille was supposed to get up on the stage at the lush Vinoy Hotel in St. Petersburg to accept this year's "What Drives You?" award from the foundation. ...more

November 14, 2008

There is a brief scene in the HBO docudrama "Recount" in which Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris is alone in her Tallahassee office looking out the window. ...more

May 25, 2008

Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, 90, thought to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase bomb, died Thursday. ...more

May 3, 2008

No More Torturing Regarding "Waterboarding Legal, White House Argues" (Nation/World, Feb. 7): ...more

February 13, 2008