A furious debate over terrorism, security and the rule of law broke out Tuesday as the presidential campaigns of Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama exchanged pointed salvoes over who could best keep the nation safe. ...more

June 18, 2008

Scott McClellan is having a "Matrix" moment - the moment when you wake up, with a jolt, from the reassuring fictions of the media dream world to the face-slapping reality of unspun fact. ...more

June 13, 2008

John McCain can read polls as well as anyone, and what he reads might make him nervous. ...more

June 11, 2008

A long way from Iraq and the war debate in Washington, Herman Moore sat outside a tent in a downtown New Orleans homeless camp, trying to make sense of a proposal that helps Iraqi war refugees but will likely exclude Hurricane Katrina victims. ...more

June 9, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the most successful female presidential candidate in U.S. history, officially ended her campaign Saturday with a forceful promise to help elect Sen. Barack Obama - and the declaration that, even though she had failed to "shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling," a gender barrier had been crossed. ...more

June 8, 2008

The war in Iraq is creating a major - and perhaps deadly - shortage of night vision goggles for civilian pilots who fly medical helicopters in the United States. ...more

June 5, 2008

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan defended his bombshell book about the Bush administration on Thursday, saying he didn't speak up against the overselling of war in Iraq at the time because he, like other Americans, gave the president the benefit of the doubt. ...more

May 30, 2008

As President Bush's press secretary, Scott McClellan was a dutiful practitioner of the swift, efficient and highly coordinated strategy the White House typically employs to take on Bush's critics. ...more

May 29, 2008

It's early on Monday, May 26, Memorial Day. As I sit here at my desk, I took some time to remember my own Army days in Vietnam. I distinctly remember the smell of Vietnam as I stepped off of the plane in 1970. I remember fellow buddies that I flew with in that year. I remember the landscape below us as we flew in the mornings in the helicopter. The cool air and the beautiful country below me so ravaged by war. ...more

May 29, 2008

There are so many people on U.S. 27 that should not be behind the wheel of a car. Some people just don't care how they drive, or about others, as long as they have their cell phones and the gas pedal. Also, I'd like to know why so many grass-cutters in and around Sebring do not have tags on their trailers when they go out to cut grass? If I was to go out onto U.S. 27 with no tags on my car I would soon get stopped, so how is it different for them? I have also seen them with no tail lights or turn signals, which is so dangerous when driving behind them; Why is the law different for them than what it is for me? Changing the subject, I would like to comment on the letter from "Billie," you're right, the "rich people" are just too greedy to help anybody else but themselves. With the oil companies, they made so many millions last year, just think what they will be making once gas prices reach $4 a gallon! ...more

May 23, 2008