Is the McCain-Palin rhetoric signaling a reformed Republican Party? ...more

September 25, 2008

Nick Bollea, the teenage son of famed former wrestler Hulk Hogan, is expected to be released from the Pinellas County Jail on Oct. 21, barring any disciplinary incidents, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

September 24, 2008

"The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008," by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, $32) ...more

September 21, 2008

Reference Darrel Johnston's Aug. 29 letter "Typical Politics." To paraphrase him: "When a candidate runs for the most important office in the world, and has nothing to offer in the way of experience, he will not and should not prevail." ...more

September 18, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama has delivered at least four major addresses on the economy in the course of his presidential candidacy. Yet even his advisers conceded that voters might not have noticed until he spoke here on Tuesday as turmoil rippled through the financial markets. ...more

September 17, 2008

Try To Be Balanced Regarding "Palin's Speech Excites Some, Leaves Others Unimpressed" (Letters, Sept. 6): ...more

September 12, 2008

On a day meant for remembrance, Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey took time to thank the next generation of soldiers likely to be called to fight. "You are entering a wartime military," Dempsey, acting commander of U.S. Central Command in Tampa, said this morning to ROTC cadets at the University of South Florida. ...more

September 11, 2008

Four years ago, while working as a senior adviser in NATO's Brussels, Belgium, headquarters, I got an up-close look at the way al-Qaida's best minds see Western elections. On March 11, 2004, Spain was rocked by perhaps the bloodiest terrorist attack in Europe since World War II, as bombs ripped apart commuter trains in Madrid, leaving nearly 2,000 Spaniards dead or injured - three days before the country went to the polls. ...more

September 7, 2008

Sen. John McCain, the former prisoner of war whose bid for the White House appeared in complete collapse just one year ago, accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday with a pledge to move the nation beyond "partisan rancor" and narrow self-interest. ...more

September 5, 2008

In selecting Sen. Joseph Biden as his running mate, Barack Obama gains some needed foreign policy expertise. ...more

August 27, 2008