The site of the worst nuclear accident in history will be a new tourist attraction, the Ukrainian government announced Monday, Dec. 13. The area around Chernobyl is scheduled to open to visitors next year. Where tourists are allowed to go, how long they may stay, and what they eat will …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would be under a lot more pressure without the diplomatic and military support he’s getting, in varying doses, from Iran, Russia and China. It’s easy to see why the Russians might support their longtime friend, who’s spent billions of dollars importing Russian weapons and who provides …

The damning evidence is in on two fronts: Housing continues to collapse to unimaginable levels. — The latest numbers are in from December, showing that home prices fell in 18 of 20 markets. The statistics prove this housing collapse is now worse than the Great Depression. Also, just days ago, …

President Obama is bowing to political reality today in delivering his balanced budget speech. In so doing, the president is taking steps to address the confidence gap among independent voters evident in the data from most recent Pew Center for People & the Press poll, which found that the president …

In the 19th Century Afghanistan was seen as a major prize for the superpowers of that time, Britain and Russia. It was known as ‘The Great Game’ and involved the two nations attempting to gain influence over Afghanistan and surrounding Central Asian countries by bribes, intimidation or military conquest. The …

According to the Wall Street Journal, the last serious attempt to count the number of federal criminal laws appears to have been made in 1982 by a retired Justice Department official named Ronald Gainer. He failed, but the estimate then was “…50 titles and 23,000 pages of federal law.” Many …

When I ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2006, I thought the mudslinging and negative campaigning had reached epic proportions, and couldn’t get much worse. Boy was I naïve. Judging from today’s campaign commercials, you’d think the candidates were a pack of degenerates, bigots, crooks and incompetents …

Enough already. Americans are tired of giving assistance and spilling American blood and spending American treasure on countries that don’t matter and people who don’t like us. Saving Afghanistan from the Taliban, preventing a civil war in Afghanistan, having Afghanistan as an American ally might be nice, but they are …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Russia and Greece have signed a deal to build an extension of a prospective gas pipeline that would carry Russian gas to Europe through Turkey. Russia has promised Greece hundreds of millions of dollars in transit payments yearly if it agreed to build the pipeline. The …

JERUSALEM – The former South African president who helped end apartheid says sanctions against Israel would be “counterproductive.” F.W. de Klerk told Israel Radio Sunday that comparisons between apartheid South Africa and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians are “odious,” and that he prefers “dialogue and negotiation as a way to …