Election Day went relatively smoothly at most Plant City area polls, including several where voters slowed to a trickle late in the day, providing procrastinators to cast line-free, eleventh-hour ballots. ...more

November 12, 2008

By midnight Tuesday, millions of conservatives probably will believe that the nation, foundering on the reefs of sin, is ruined. And millions of "progressives," emboldened to embrace truth in labeling by again calling themselves liberals, probably will have decided that Heaven is at hand, the nation revived like a flower in an April shower. ...more

November 2, 2008

The nearly 3,000 people who died when hijackers commandeered four passenger jets on Sept. 11, 2001, were remembered Thursday, as President Bush dedicated the first national memorial to the victims and the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates joined in a moment of silence. ...more

September 12, 2008

John McCain and Barack Obama vow to reform the nation's defense procurement if elected president, yet each is unwilling to take a firm stand against the skyrocketing cost of a plum White House perk: the new Marine One helicopter. ...more

July 19, 2008

Democratic presidential candidates said the United States should be ready to respond to gradual reforms in Cuba after the resignation of communist leader Fidel Castro. ...more

February 20, 2008

Barack Obama has not made it easy for his Florida supporters. Like other leading Democratic presidential candidates, Obama has refused to campaign here. His staff ignores the grass-roots Florida organizations backing him. And his campaign recently declared that Florida's voters "have no bearing on the Democratic nomination contest." ...more

January 21, 2008

The nation's capital may be Hollywood for ugly people, but Hollywood celebrities are still attracted to Washington politicians. ...more

January 14, 2008

The leading Democratic presidential candidates clashed Sunday over each other's claim to be the true candidate of change in the final hours of the slushy New Hampshire homestretch. ...more

January 7, 2008

To prepare for a prolonged writers strike, television networks have stockpiled a gladiator battle, a lie-detector game, a remade "Password," a celebrity "Apprentice" and a competition for aspiring Pussycat Dolls. ...more

December 25, 2007

Here is the list of the 10 most memorable quotes of 2007, according to Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations. ...more

December 20, 2007