Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

The Spirit teaches us how to participate with God in the restoration of all things

The wise pause

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!