A recent magazine survey indicated that courtesy has diminished in public places in the United States. People interviewed said they thought that we are no longer as poli...
WASHINGTON — Justice John Paul Stevens, the author of the majority opinion in last week's historic decision on Guantanamo detainee trials, was appointed to the Supreme C...
HILO, Hawaii — Americans who visit Hawaii often feel they are in a foreign country, and if those tourists cared about the islands' politics that might make them even mor...
As a rule, I'm not a fan of government intrusion into our personal business. I believe that adults should be free to live their lives as they see fit, as long as their a...
MINNEAPOLIS — Jesse Ventura has retired his act to Baja California and reportedly is confining his politics to coaching Kinky Friedman on his long-shot run for governor ...
WASHINGTON — We had two political objectives in going into Iraq: deposing Saddam and replacing his regime with a democratic government unthreatening to the region and st...
The most fascinating part of my trip to Iran in late May was how much Iranian officials wanted to talk about holding talks with the United States.
Soon after I left Tehr...
You can call it Tom DeLay's final victory!
In upholding most of the controversial Texas redistricting plan, the Supreme Court cemented the Republican Party's hold on the...
President Bush called the leaking and publishing of information on a top- secret program to locate terrorists by sifting through bank data "disgraceful." Rep. Pete King,...
WASHINGTON — The situation the United States and its allies now face in Afghanistan and Iraq is one almost without precedent. In two countries where we used our military...
