Opinion

Feb. 12, 2012: In this citizen journalism image provide by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria, an anti-Syrian regime man reacts in front of flames which rise from a burning shop damaged by Syrian government forces shelling, in Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, central Syria.

Turmoil in countries like Syria, above, make some wonder if America is unwilling to any longer play the role of global enforcer.

I have only seen Penny Woolcock's TV-film adaption, and I'm guessing that this column isn't going to score me any free tickets to the upcoming staging.

This is the way it usually works: politicians treat us all as if we just fell of the turnip truck.

The associate editor of The Sun newspaper fired off an 800-word broadside Monday at the U.K. police phone hacking investigation that has led to the arrest of some of the paper's most senior journalists.

Everyone told us to go to Hana. Everyone! From tour guide Wade Holmes to our pals at Makena's Little Beach, the message was the same time and time again: You can't spend all your time on Maui laying in the sun and playing in the waves, when there are so many beautiful sites to see... and when so many of them are on the Road to Hana.

As soon as firefighters had put out the blaze in the council-owned block of flats around half a dozen maintenance staff were on the scene to sort out the mess.

Visiting Hamas prime minister from Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, gestures as he delivers his speech in front of portraits of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at a rally in Tehran, on Saturday, Feb.

Taylor Swift performs onstage during the 54th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb.

President Barack Obama is campaigning on the claim that he is a great friend of Israel despite the fact that this is clearly not true.

A move to allow Sunday hunting on private land has been the subject of heated debate in recent weeks.

The United States is going broke every second of the day, with the national debt now hitting $16.2 trillion annually and no real government plan in place to stop the runaway train.

"It would probably be better if there were a limited number of terms that the people served in the Legislature.

All elected officials, and those who help finance elections in the expectation that certain promises will be kept - and everyone who cares about the rule of law - should hope the Supreme Court agrees to hear Don Siegelman's appeal of his conviction.

Both Democrats and Republicans talk about opportunity, but their talk is very different.

OUNT HEALTHY, Ohio - Several dozen animals have found temporary shelter after Ohio firefighters rescued at least 60 pets from a house fire in a Cincinnati suburb.

By Curt A. Benson On Dec. 30, Eric Scott Pierson of Cedar Springs, shopping in a local party store, allegedly pulled a knife on a black man while using a racial epithet.

"I do not want my daughters to ever have to get a diagnosis like this," said the mother of Madeline, 7, and Cecilia, 5. "If there's one mission, it's that they never have to deal with this.

San Francisco has never seen anything like it: huge yachts with 100-foot masts gunning along the waterfront for America's Cup, sailing's Super Bowl.

Roethlisberger told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he will wait to form his own opinion of Todd Haley, who replaced Bruce Arians as the team's offensive coordinator.