Lost sovereignty Editor: It is my understanding that President Barack Obama will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. I have read that the president will sign a treaty without seeking a two-thirds ratification of the treaty by the Senate, or any other type of Congressional approval. I read that most of the world will sign it. It is my understanding that this treaty will bring the United States into a position of submission to the rest of the world and bring us more than ever under the control of the U.N. ...more

October 27, 2009

Can any thinking person deny that President Obama's world president campaign strategy is impeccable? When he completes his appointment of czars who do not need congressional approval and who answer only to him, he can be less encumbered. Since the United States taxpayer funds his campaign, money is not a problem. ...more

April 29, 2009

The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the financial system designed to impose greater regulation on major players like hedge funds. ...more

March 26, 2009

President Barack Obama laid out his first budget plan Thursday predicting a stunning federal deficit of $1.75 trillion this year - nearly four times last year's record - and asking Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy to stem that flood of red ink while still moving the country toward guaranteed health care for all. ...more

February 27, 2009

Lifting the country out of its economic woes won't be easy or quick, but it can be done with bipartisan cooperation in Washington, Congressman-elect Tom Rooney said as he visited the Highlands County commissioners meeting Tuesday morning. ...more

December 17, 2008

No financial rescue cash will be handed out behind closed doors, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke promised Congress just a few weeks ago. ...more

November 15, 2008

The House braced for a difficult vote today on a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry after a weekend of tense negotiations produced a plan that congressional leaders portrayed as greatly strengthened by new taxpayer safeguards. ...more

September 29, 2008

The United States gained key international backing Saturday for a bitterly contested plan to sell peaceful nuclear technology to India - a South Asia powerhouse that has tested atomic weapons but has refused to sign global nonproliferation accords. ...more

September 7, 2008

Free Market Effect Regarding "Columnist Is Naïve" (Letters, July 29): The letter writer claims that "the price of oil futures went down following upon and directly related to President Bush's changing the presidential ban on offshore drilling." He and others who agree are flat out wrong. ...more

August 2, 2008

Manuel Castillo was driving a truck through Alabama hauling onions and left with a $500 ticket for something he didn't think he was doing: speaking English poorly. ...more

July 18, 2008