One of the lessons of Vietnam," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., "is if you are going to send American forces into harm's way, you don't do it in a limited way. You don't do it tying hands behind your back ahead of time. You don't ask people to give their lives for something less than the prospect of success." ...more

November 8, 2009

I read with interest the latest joke being perpetrated on the folks of Massachusetts by the Democrats. They changed the law in 2004, so that their then Republican governor, Mitt Romney, would be blocked in naming a successor to Sen. John Kerry, if Kerry won the presidential election. ...more

September 21, 2009

Cuban-American voters here remain dominated by an older generation with more extreme views on U.S.-Cuba foreign policy, including support for the U.S. embargo against their communist homeland, according to an exit poll taken during the 2008 election. ...more

March 21, 2009

crack down on free speech they don't like, that is - is now impossible to deny. ...more

March 8, 2009

For the five years she has run Frida's Cafe and Bakery on busy Ulmerton Road, Frida Alipour has sold cookies featuring the faces of the presidential candidates. ...more

January 21, 2009

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has been wheeled out of the Capitol on a stretcher. ...more

January 20, 2009

For the five years she's run Frida's Café and Bakery on busy Ulmerton Road, Frida Alipour has sold cookies featuring the faces of the presidential candidates before the election. And, as part of an unofficial poll, her staff keeps track of how many of a particular candidate's cookies sell before Nov. 4. ...more

January 20, 2009

Enthusiasm among blacks and Democrats for Barack Obama's candidacy pushed voter turnout in this year's elections to the highest level in 40 years. ...more

December 15, 2008

The president-elect won't be there, but an Obama buzz will crackle through the conference hall when negotiators gather Monday for a final push toward a sweeping new global warming treaty. ...more

November 30, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates that President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state, according to two Democratic officials in close contact with the Obama transition team. ...more

November 13, 2008