President Barack Obama today will outline his intention to send an additional 34,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan, say U.S. officials and diplomats briefed Monday as Obama began informing allies of his plan. ...more

December 1, 2009

In his speech tonight announcing a military surge for Afghanistan, President Barack Obama owes it to U.S. troops and to taxpayers to get specific about his goal for that impoverished, unruly place. ...more

December 1, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner communicated with a senior Pentagon official about going to the event, but the official denies that she helped the couple get in. ...more

November 30, 2009

Allan Katz of Tallahassee, a Democratic Party activist and early supporter of President Barack Obama, has been nominated ambassador to Portugal. ...more

November 30, 2009

Riven by partisanship, the Senate plunged into a widely anticipated debate today over sweeping health care legislation that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have vowed to approve and Republicans sworn to block. ...more

November 30, 2009

President Barack Obama is traveling to a climate summit in Copenhagen next month to boldly promise that the United States will cut its emissions of carbon dioxide 17 percent from 2005 levels in just 10 years. ...more

November 28, 2009

Congress and President Barack Obama are proposing a cure for the ills of our health care system. But are we sure they have properly diagnosed the disease? ...more

November 28, 2009

The Virginia couple who crashed this week's state dinner at the White House met face to face with President Barack Obama in the event's receiving line, officials acknowledged Friday as the Secret Service began investigating whether the couple broke any criminal laws by getting inside without an official invitation. ...more

November 28, 2009

Otto von Bismarck at one point called the prospect of Germany waging preventive war against other European powers "committing suicide out of fear of death." Little did the Iron Chancellor know that he was forecasting 21st-century Democratic political strategy. Democrats so fear the consequences of failing to pass ObamaCare that they've convinced themselves that embracing $370 billion worth of tax increases and more than $400 billion worth of Medicare cuts is good for them. This will long make for a compelling case study in the Annals of Abnormal Political Psychology. ...more

November 28, 2009

Letters to the editor from Nov. 28 North Pinellas edition. ...more

November 28, 2009