The latest polls show Chris Daggett securing between 14 percent and 18 percent of the vote in his independent bid for governor of New Jersey. Daggett seeks to offer a new voice that does not echo the predictable ideologies of the two major parties, just as I did when challenging Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan for the presidency in 1980. But as with most independent candidates, Daggett faces accusations of ``spoiling'' the election.
Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death-row inmate counting the warden's footsteps.
Among the people who enrich my life is a Korean-born 23-year-old writer who recently completed graduate work at Columbia University and a 22-year-old Chilean-born artist completing his college education in Miami.
The first key votes of the Obama era take place this week, not on the floor of the House or Senate, where healthcare legislation still languishes, but in Virginia, New Jersey and northern New York state, where President Obama's endorsements of threatened Democratic candidates will test his political clout a year after his own election.
Below are two excerpts from Yoani Sánchez's award-winning Generation Y blog, desdecuba.com/generationy, which is put together by friends in Europe from information she sends surreptitiously from Cuba:
It seems like anywhere you look these days someone is celebrating something ``Latino.''
One good quality that Abraham (Honest Abe) Lincoln practiced was persistence at jobs. He couldn't go to school, but he never gave up on learning. Two of the jobs he didn't give up on were running for the legislature and opening up a store, but he failed both times. He didn't give up on the legislature, and he later won!
Miami is one of 11 U.S. cities officially named by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commis !!BEGIN TAG!! m4 !!END TAG!! Please add Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth-largest system in the country, offered Lincoln lessons this fall, and more than 31,500 students participated in an essay competition focused on the meaning of Lincoln for today, 144 years after his death, which is 31 years before Miami was incorporated. Here we feature the essays of the four division winners.
President Obama's in-house debate on troop levels in Afghanistan isn't over yet, but it's a safe bet what he'll do: split the difference. Obama's military commander, Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, requested between 10,000 and 40,000 additional troops. The president appears headed toward a number in the middle.
This November, the World Trade Center Miami will bring more than 12,000 foreign and domestic visitors, food and beverage executives and aviation and maritime CEOs and regulators to Miami to attend three signature events created by the World Trade Center Miami.
In a world where so many claim to value peace above all else, a recent anniversary passed with less attention than it deserved. Oct. 26 marked 15 years since one of the great triumphs of peacemakers in a region where peace scores too few victories. In 1994, the leaders of Israel and Jordan came together at their shared Arab border near the Red Sea and signed a treaty proclaiming, ``Peace is hereby established between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.''
There have been various attempts over the decades to bury moral philosophy -- to dismiss convictions about right and wrong as cultural prejudices, or secretions of the brain, or matters so personal they shouldn't even affect our private lives.
As if President Obama didn't have enough on his plate with healthcare and Afghanistan, he's now faced with the problem that can't be solved: Women.
COPENHAGEN -- Corks popped this month in Copenhagen, with Rio de Janeiro voted as host city for the 2016 Summer Games and the convening of the XIII Olympic Congress, the first since 1994. Meanwhile, in a dark cell in Fuzhou, a coastal city on the East China Sea, Ji Sizun has no cause to celebrate. The 59-year-old legal activist was sentenced to three years in prison in January. His crime? He took the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Chinese government at their word when authorities set up three official protest zones during the Beijing Games and said that any citizen could apply to protest.
The world seems to be ignoring a dangerous partnership that threatens international peace and stability -- the Iran-Venezuela pairing that is having great success exporting its authoritarian model throughout Latin America.
`SSometimes party loyalty asks too much,'' said JFK.
For Sarah Palin, party loyalty in New York's 23rd congressional district asks too much. Going rogue, Palin endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava.You figure the White House is probably feeling pretty good about itself right now.
Forty-seven years ago this month, President John F. Kennedy revealed that the Soviet Union was secretly installing strategic nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. More than 40 were to be emplaced, capable of obliterating nearly every major American city. The two superpowers confronted each other at the brink of nuclear holocaust.
Here is a test for news junkies: On Oct. 21, Iranian nuclear negotiators left Vienna after negotiations with the United Nations, Russia, France and the United States. In their briefcases they carried a proposal requiring authorization from their government. The deadline for approval was Friday, Oct. 23. When the deadline came, what did Iran say?
When I wrote a few days ago about the growing nervousness of moderate Senate Democrats over the approaching vote to raise the federal debt limit, I had no idea how quickly evidence of that shift in the political winds would appear.
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